Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here « Find the Best Qualified DUI Attorney
0
- It’s a Saturday night and you have been gone out with a few friends for celebrating your recent promotion at work. While you are driving towards your home on your way an officer stops you, the reason given by him for the stop is that he has seen that you were swerving and that there was a strong smell of alcohol on your breath.
He asks you that if you have been drinking tonight, and you replied in positive saying that yes you have been drinking. You have also submitted to a roadside sobriety test and then you get arrested for DUI or driving under the influence of alcohol.
On Monday morning after getting a ride from a friend you’re back at work. You are still very much confused and don’t know where to go and what to do. And you still can’t understand that what has happened to you even after passing the whole Sunday thinking about your situation.
The first and most important thing that you need to do is to find a qualified DUI attorney who may help you to deal with your pending court proceedings and help you to pass the DUI process without any difficulty. To find a DUI attorney by just opening up the phone book and find a lawyer who handles DUI cases is very easy task, but choosing this way to find a DUI attorney would be a big mistake.
To find a DUI attorney your first step is to create a list of the possible candidates that you think would be a good DUI attorney. There are several places that you can look to find a DUI attorney like the newspaper, Internet search engines etc.
Now let me tell you a very important thing that all DUI attorneys are not equally qualified and experienced. You should always keep this thing in your mind that the key to hire and retain a qualified DUI attorney to handle your case is to ask the right questions at the time when you are interviewing the attorney. Yes that’s true, you must need to interview the attorney about whom you have decided to hire for your case.
Don’t get nervous in front of the attorney, he or she is just a normal human being just like you are. The only difference between you and her is that he or she are considered to be an expert in the area of DUI law just like you are an expert in your career.
Guidelines that you should follow while interviewing a DUI attorney:
• Ask the attorney that does the attorney focus only on DUI defense or does he or she handle other areas of criminal law also? I suggest you to only hire someone that focuses on DUI defense.
• Ask the attorney that are items such as your dmv hearing, blood reanalysis, expert fees, etc. included in the overall price quoted by him or her?
• If the attorney had given you a guarantee that they can clear your DUI record, then never hire that attorney as no qualified DUI attorney would ever make a claim like that.
• Request your attorney to give you a written contract to record all the expenses.
• Check that whether the attorney board is certified by the American Bar Association or not?
• Check that is the attorney a member of and certified by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers or the NACDL?
While you are interviewing the attorney it is important for you to feel like you can work with the attorney and that he or she is really sincere to take you out of your problem and also listening to your needs and concerns carefully. If you have not got that impression, have an interview with the next attorney on your list until you find the right choice for you.
Don’t forget that to hire a qualified DUI attorney is the most important step in the DUI process.
You might also like
 |
 |
 |
 |
