By fashun on February 22nd, 2008
The consultation with the OK DUI lawyer who is on your possible hire list is the most important part of this section of your litigation process. When you speak with the lawyer, you will need to form an idea of their ability and your compatibility with them in a very short period of around thirty minutes or so, so you have to go in with a strategy. Here are a couple of things that you should work into that strategy:
- Consultations are for you and your representation. Make sure that is who you are speaking to, not an assistant.
- Price is important. Get a fee agreement with a detailed explanation for charges and ask your lawyer what could make that price go up in the process, how, how likely, and how much.
- Examine your possible Oklahoma lawyer ’s past by questioning the number of years, number of cases, ratio of successful wins, and so on they have had, specifically with DUI law.
By fashun on February 21st, 2008
As you go around getting fee agreements from one Tulsa Oklahoma DUI lawyer or another, you may slowly be having to face the fact that these agreements just don’t agree with you. The prices are high, and the payment plans just don’t fit your budget, and in addition to that you don’t want to risk racking up more debt. Even if you aren’t feeling uneasy about the prices, it’s still a good idea for you to check with the courthouse to see if you have other options, such as having your legal representation provided to you at no charge.
While this is not a possibility in every DUI case, it is for felony DUIs, and even for some misdemeanor DUIs a Tulsa Oklahoma DUI lawyer can be provided like this.
Although it is easy to assume that public lawyers are low quality, the truth is that they are often excellent lawyers and that it won’t hurt your case at all to have one. Some even handle private cases as well as the government provided ones assigned to them.
By fashun on February 21st, 2008
The cost of a DUI attorney in Oklahoma isn’t just one big sum of money, but the sum of many little parts. As an intelligent customer, you have the ability and the responsibility to examine those parts and make sure they are all in the right place and should be there at all. If some of those parts shouldn’t be there, then you could end up overpaying. For this reason, you should look for hidden costs like the following in your fee agreement.
- Some cases require more help than others, so within the cost of DUI attorney for you, you may find sections that charge you for the work done by employees on your case, the charge for hiring someone to interview your witnesses, the costs of overtime hours worked on your stuff, and the like.
- Along with the above, you’ll also probably get hit with an assessed charge for all of the bits of paper, stamps, and envelopes that were used during the work on your case.
- Sometimes an attorney has to travel to represent you, and if they do, they may charge you for this.
- The court has their own charges, and sometimes these are included in your lawyer fees, while other times you pay them separately on your own.
