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> One other way to “enlarge the pie” in situations like this is to hire an attorney. Your comments here are incredibly enlightening, thank you for sharing! Can

by dahart 4y ago

> One other way to “enlarge the pie” in situations like this is to hire an attorney. Your comments here are incredibly enlightening, thank you for sharing! Can you speak to how to find a good attorney for this kind of thing, or really for any legal needs? Like where to go to find people willing to do arbitration and maybe how to determine if they’re good. I’ve hired a lawyer in the past for some employment contract work, and it was worth every penny, but found out it was rather difficult to find someone who could help. I had to cold call a lot of people who weren’t interested or said they weren’t qualified. It felt like the lawyers or firms I spoke to were mostly looking for a longer term relationship.

thathndude 4y ago
Happy to be of help. It's very challenging finding a lawyer in a lot of these consumer protection spaces, because, for a whole host of reasons, there's not a lot of money here. Having said that, one piece of advice I always like to give when looking for any professional is to use your network. If you have people in your network you trust, use them as a starting point. So, for example, I don't do criminal law. But, as a lawyer, I know lots of criminal lawyers (insert joke), and I also have a well-tuned BS detector when talking with other lawyers. So even though I can't help you, you'd be smart to reach out to me because I can help you find the right person much more effectively. And if I can't, then I reach out to a criminal law attorney I know, link you up, and let that person make a recommendation. In short, use your network to leverage experience and knowledge to zero in on a good attorney. It will probably take a few degrees of connection, but if the chain is solid, you should get a good end result. For example, I recently had a client who needed a criminal law attorney in a state where I don't practice. So you have two issues: one, I don't know that legal community, and two, I don't do criminal law. But, I reached out in my network to a prosecutor in New York. Now this prosecutor can't represent my client, but now I have a criminal law attorney in the right state, and so his network is going to help. My buddy (lawyer 2) reaches out to his network, and one of his trusted contacts says "call lawyer 3)." My buddy (lawyer 2) doesn't know lawyer 3, but he trusts his network and the referrer. Long story short, my client ends up represented by lawyer 3, and well taken care of.

by dahart 4y ago

thathndude 4y ago

Happy to be of help. It's very challenging finding a lawyer in a lot of these consumer protection spaces, because, for a whole host of reasons, there's not a lot of money here. Having said that, one piece of advice I always like to give when looking for any professional is to use your network. If you have people in your network you trust, use them as a starting point. So, for example, I don't do criminal law. But, as a lawyer, I know lots of criminal lawyers (insert joke), and I also have a well-tuned BS detector when talking with other lawyers. So even though I can't help you, you'd be smart to reach out to me because I can help you find the right person much more effectively. And if I can't, then I reach out to a criminal law attorney I know, link you up, and let that person make a recommendation. In short, use your network to leverage experience and knowledge to zero in on a good attorney. It will probably take a few degrees of connection, but if the chain is solid, you should get a good end result. For example, I recently had a client who needed a criminal law attorney in a state where I don't practice. So you have two issues: one, I don't know that legal community, and two, I don't do criminal law. But, I reached out in my network to a prosecutor in New York. Now this prosecutor can't represent my client, but now I have a criminal law attorney in the right state, and so his network is going to help. My buddy (lawyer 2) reaches out to his network, and one of his trusted contacts says "call lawyer 3)." My buddy (lawyer 2) doesn't know lawyer 3, but he trusts his network and the referrer. Long story short, my client ends up represented by lawyer 3, and well taken care of.