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    cozyk Posts: 802, Reputation: 125
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    Apr 9, 2008, 09:39 AM
    How do you get a good lawyer
    I have no idea how to know if I am getting a good attorney? My son had one for two previous juvenile offences and he was a complete waste of $2500. Now he is facing a shop lifting charge , he is 17 (adult) in Ga. And I don't know where to turn. I think we make too much money for a court appointed attorney. Don't you have to be impovershed?
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    Apr 9, 2008, 09:49 AM
    Hello again, mom:

    Please keep your posts in the same thread. If you did, you'd see my answer.

    Again, YOU probably do make too much money. But your son is broke.

    excon
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    Apr 9, 2008, 10:44 AM
    Found this on the Georgia state bar site...

    Atlanta Bar Association
    Lawyer Referral and Information Service
    400 International Tower
    229 Peachtree Street
    Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1600
    Carla Brown
    (404) 521-0781
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    Apr 9, 2008, 11:43 AM
    Sometimes we need to let our kids face a punishment just to get them to understand what they did was wrong!
    You usually can do a check when you find a lawyer to find out if they are any good. Plus, the better the lawyer, the more they cost!
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    Apr 9, 2008, 02:02 PM
    Yes, I know he really needs to be the one to pay the piper on this one. I let him stay in jail last night. We just got home after posting bail $618.00 a few min. ago. Tomorrrow, we go to the bank for him to withdraw that money from his savings acct. and pay me back. Then we are going for a serious haircut, no more scruff on the face either. Then we are going to check into some kind of community service for him to get involved in BEFORE his court date.

    I've looked into checking to see if a lawyer is any good and there is nothing that I have found that gives any kind of rating.
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    Apr 9, 2008, 03:39 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by svatnsdal
    Sometimes we need to let our kids face a punishment just to get them to understand what they did was wrong!
    You usually can do a check when you find a lawyer to find out if they are any good. Plus, the better the lawyer, the more they cost!

    Perhaps this is your experience in Canada; it is certainly NOT the case in the US. You pay here for advertising and reputation, not necessarily for expertise.
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