The two most important factors in determining if you're hiring the right Oakland County Defense Attorney. 1) Have you been reviewed by your peers, and if so, what do they say? With the extra information on the internet, comes an opportunity to learn more about potential companies and products. This also applies to professionals in Michigan like lawyers, doctors and accountants. Avvo.com is one of the most well known and well respected attorney rating sites on the internet. On this site, Attorney’s regularly give feedback and rate their peers on competence and performance. Attorney’s can post using their real names or anonymously, which creates a mix bag of good and bad reviews. It takes a fellow attorney to truly know how well prepared and effective another attorney is. A lay person may think an attorney is doing a great, but a trained professional can see through the truth. Click to view attorney Jonathan Paul’s Avvo.com peer reviews.
2) Are you a former prosecutor and, if so, where were you a prosecutor? If the lawyer does not mention prominently in their advertising or website that they are a former prosecutor, it is probably because they are not. Let me say that there are plenty of excellent attorneys who have never been prosecutors. But let me ask you this, if the IRS called you this evening with an audit or a threat, wouldn't you want a former IRS agent on your side? Wouldn't you have questions for them? This is the benefit of having a former prosecutor as your defense lawyer.
Besides being a former prosecutor, you should ask a potential lawyer, where they were a prosecutor? All former prosecutor jobs are not created equal. For example, some prosecutor jobs are part-time or in small remote counties where the missing pig is on the front page of the newspaper. Attorney Jonathan Paul is a former New York City Assistant District Attorney. Yes, the same Assistant District Attorney’s you watch every week on Law & Order. While Mr. Paul never worked with Jack McCoy on a television set, he did work daily with the New York City Police Department, and faced some of the toughest judges and defense lawyers in the country. Mr. Paul was also an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at the prestigious Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office here in Michigan. As a former prosecutor in both New York and Michigan, Mr. Paul had a 100 percent conviction rate! Luckily for your case, he’s now on your side.
2) Are you a former prosecutor and, if so, where were you a prosecutor? If the lawyer does not mention prominently in their advertising or website that they are a former prosecutor, it is probably because they are not. Let me say that there are plenty of excellent attorneys who have never been prosecutors. But let me ask you this, if the IRS called you this evening with an audit or a threat, wouldn't you want a former IRS agent on your side? Wouldn't you have questions for them? This is the benefit of having a former prosecutor as your defense lawyer.
Besides being a former prosecutor, you should ask a potential lawyer, where they were a prosecutor? All former prosecutor jobs are not created equal. For example, some prosecutor jobs are part-time or in small remote counties where the missing pig is on the front page of the newspaper. Attorney Jonathan Paul is a former New York City Assistant District Attorney. Yes, the same Assistant District Attorney’s you watch every week on Law & Order. While Mr. Paul never worked with Jack McCoy on a television set, he did work daily with the New York City Police Department, and faced some of the toughest judges and defense lawyers in the country. Mr. Paul was also an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at the prestigious Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office here in Michigan. As a former prosecutor in both New York and Michigan, Mr. Paul had a 100 percent conviction rate! Luckily for your case, he’s now on your side.
