Hi, my name is Chris Morales I’m a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, California and today I want to talk about the truth in lawyer advertising. If you are shopping for a lawyer or looking for a criminal defense attorney to defend you or a loved one. You are going to hear and read a lot about attorneys who build themselves as being experienced, as being competent, as being aggressive. What do those terms really mean, you need to dig a bit deeper. Experience how many years have they been practicing you can ask them that, how many jury trials
have they tried by themselves there should be a large number. At least 50, between 50 and 100 ideally. Are they aggressive how often do they go to trial. You want an attorney who goes to trial regularly every year 2,3, 4 or 5 times every year. That lets you know they are an aggressive attorney. Some people say they are experts in Criminal Law or they are specialist in Criminal Law. You need to ask them if they are board certified specialist because it is unethical to build yourself as a specialist or expert unless the state bar of California says you are.
They are the only ones that can say you are a certified specialist in criminal law and that’s the only time you can advertise yourself as an expert or as a specialist. So those are some things some measuring sticks that you can use in choosing a criminal defense attorney. You can also go to Avvo.com and look for attorneys that are rated superb you can go to the better business bureau to find attorneys that have an A+ rating so those are a couple of secondary sources for picking your attorney.
Best of luck to you.
When you Should & Shouldn’t talk to the Police
Criminal Defense Attorney – Christopher Morales
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