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Civil Litigation -
Finding an Attorney

Northern California Civil Litigation Information

Hiring an attorney to handle your case is not conceptually different from hiring a contractor or other professional. Unless you already know who you want to hire, you should interview two or three attorneys to determine who will best suit your needs.

If you do not know an attorney, talk to friends or relatives in the area who can refer you to an attorney. At this initial phase, don't be too focused on immediately finding, on your own, an attorney who specializes in handling your type of lawsuit. Instead, you want to be referred to such an attorney. A good way to do that is by having one attorney refer you to another attorney. For example, if you have an estate planning attorney, that attorney may not want to handle business litigation, but they will probably be able to refer you to two or three attorneys who do.

Again, at this early stage, you want to focus on finding an attorney whom you trust, or whom someone you know trusts, to either handle your case or refer you to another attorney. There are other referral sources such as online databases and county bar associations which provide lists of attorneys who specialize in different types of law. But before you do that, try to find an attorney through a source you already know and trust.

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