In the last post I talked about the general question of
whether or not you should consider being your own lawyer – whether you could
really represent yourself in court or otherwise. In that post I referred to the
fact that there were some cases where is was not appropriate.
I’d like to talk a little more about that today.
To borrow from what is usually a stupid analogy, but in a
few cases can have merit, “would you perform surgery on yourself?” Of course
not and there are some cases where you clearly need the services of an
attorney. We actually go into detail, beyond the scope of this blog on that
very question on our website – here is the link to that specific page: http://www.beyourownlawyer.org/sub-page/11/should-you-represent-yourself-.html
Let’s look at some. Examples of cases better handled by
lawyers:
Criminal cases that could land you in jail, or with a serious
criminal record. Makes sense! Losing a case involving some money is one thing.
Losing a case and spending years in jail with your life on the scrapheap – a
little different.
Juvenile Justice Case. Same thing applied to your child. The
potentially devastating results to a child’s entire life from getting into
these squalid systems make it imperative that an attorney, knowledgeable in
these matters be retained as early in the proceedings as possible.
Complex Civil Case. Some case are just so complicated in
terms of the numbers of witnesses and documents that you could never really
hope to keep up. Small firm and solo practice lawyers even avoid these as being
too demanding of resources.
There are other cases that are just not suited to being
handled without an attorney. At Be Your Own Lawyer while we suggest that with
help you can handle most legal matters on your own, we’re at the same time
realistic. One of the things we offer, at no cost to you, is to take a look at
a case and tell you upfront if its something that you’d be better of hiring and
attorney for.
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