How to find an attorney-lawyer to help for free.

July 30, 2020

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How to find an attorney to help for free. welcome back to finally revealed in this episode I want to talk about what you can do if you need an attorney but you don’t have any money to pay them I think everyone knows about the public defender
we have a constitutional right to counsel when you are being charged with a crime and that is to avoid someone being denied their due process because an individual can’t possibly know all of the things that a lawyer knows and can’t possibly know all the rules such as to provide themselves with a fair and proper defense so when your liberties involved which means you might be locked up in jail if you can’t afford an attorney one will be appointed for you by the court so that’s in a criminal situation we do
not have the same protection when it is a civil matter and a civil matter is anytime someone is suing you or you need to sue someone else to enforce an obligation to exercise or get equity or fairness out of a situation where to get money or be charged with paying someone money and so those are all civil actions and you don’t automatically get an attorney provided for you however there are ways to get representation when you

How to find an attorney-lawyer to help for free. have limited or no means to pay for it and here are some of those suggestions now there may be additional ones based upon where you live so hopefully these suggestions will get you thinking if you
investigate and you don’t have one of these which I know you have one of these avenues you may just need somebody to

help you find the exact right place but I know one of these will help you but there may be additional societies or associations or people that hold themselves out to do this type of work okay so the first one is legal aid legal aid is similar to the public defender’s office but it is for civil matters they have requirements on what your income is and
they also as far as whether they consider you being able to pay there’s a difference between I don’t want to pay for an attorney versus I really can’t

afford it to have a way to check and see if you fit within their requirements to qualify to be someone who can receive legal aid which is an attorney on a limited amount or for free I also do
know that you need to be able to disclose to them what the matter is

about and even if you can’t pay for an attorney if you your action is something where you’re going to get a lot of money then they won’t take it on that for that reason and attorneys when you are going

to you have the opportunity to get a lot of money there are attorneys who will take matters on a contingent fee basis

which is they will take a percentage of what the recovery is but you only have to pay for expenses until that point and if you do not recover then you don’t owe them anything so those were – the next
one is law schools if there is a law school in your state which I think
almost every state at least has one contact that law school it’s going to depend upon how far you are geographically to them so if they’re too far away for a student to get to you then they might not offer this service to your area but they might offer it in the vicinity right around the law school

many law schools have what you would call a legal clinic and that is where students with the supervision of a professor who’s a lawyer will take on certain types of cases I know when I was in law school we had that and I participated in it and they chose the cases by subject matter and they would take them every year so if you have a

particular issue that you want to bring to court then you might go ahead and send this in to them because you might have a number of years that you’re able to pursue this and so if it doesn’t come up this time

it might come up next term and they can take it on and so with the supervision of their professor who’s an attorney the student would do the work for you they also choose the cases to have a variety so they won’t do all of the same kind of case but they will do a different variety so you might ask them are they full what availability do they

have when when will they be able to start it and what types of cases are there are they looking for and if they already have one or two of your kind can you leave it there to get first to make sure that you’ll get picked next time so the law schools is another option for you then the local Bar Association every community has a Bar Association at least on the county or parish level and you can contact their office and ask them about any pro bono which means for free projects that they have going or if

they have a list of attorneys who will accept cases on a pro bono basis and again be able to tell them what it’s about because that will help them decide whether they have something that might match up with you and they can then ask you questions and try to make the right fit and

How to find an attorney-lawyer to help for free. then large law firms will often have a person who will do pro bono for the firm generally they want to show goodwill to the community they want to show that they are participating in community outreach so contact a large law firm in your area and ask them if they have an inside pro bono attorney who can help you and that will that might get you

where you need to go and then finally if you’ve exhausted all of these options and you’ve looked in your local directory and you’ve asked around ask an attorney do you know somebody who knows an attorney or do you know an attorney it doesn’t have to be someone who is working in the area that you need an attorney to help you in but they will
listen to you and help you find a connection to someone who depending upon what is involved and how much time it takes who might step up and help you