The Process Involved In Choosing A Good New York Business Attorney

By Paulette Mason


Choosing a lawyer is not a difficult task. However choosing a good one is what is very difficult especially if you do not know how to go about it. This article considers some of the process involved in choosing a good New York business attorney.

One should have the understanding that when you are choosing a lawyer to handle your issues, you are like someone who is looking for another person to employ. You should therefore conduct the whole process like an interview where you are looking for the best ones out of the many available people who can also do the same work. Therefore, there are three basic processes involved in the choosing.

The identification stage involves identifying various business lawyers. It is important that if you want to get a good lawyer, then you start by identifying many of them then selecting the best one out of the ones you have identified. Identifying lawyers is not an issue as there are several ways on how one can identify them.

The identification process involves looking for many lawyers who are practicing in New York. This can be done by visiting the directories for legal services. At the directories, you will be able to identify the type of legal service you are looking for and the lawyers who provide it as well as their contact address. You can also consider going for referrals from the bar association or referrals from your friends, colleagues and relatives. The most important thing at this stage is to identify the lawyers irrespective of the process you use in the identification. One should consider only the process which they are comfortable with.

The other stage to be considered after the identification stage is the scrutiny stage. At this stage, you will need to collect information regarding the profiles of the lawyers identified. The scrutiny should be based on their profiles. The following are some of the factors of scrutiny to be used.

Only those who are experience should be left the rest who are not having relevant experience should be left out. The other factor of scrutiny to consider is the area of specialization. You should only go for the lawyers who are specialized in the area of business you are operation in. The others who are not specialized should be left out as well. The reputation of the lawyers as swell be used as a factor of scrutiny. The whole idea of doing the scrutiny is to compare the profiles of the identified lawyers and to remain with the best ones to proceed to the next stage which is the selection stage.

You can also go ahead and look out for their educational as well as their professional qualifications and eliminate them based on such qualifications. This will enable you to remain with lawyers who are good enough to handle your business case. It is important to note that the scrutiny should be conducted until such a time when you are only left with a handful of the lawyers whom you can then proceed with to the next process of selection.

The other process involves now selecting the best lawyer out of the good ones you have remained with after scrutiny. You should be able to book an appointment and meet with them in person. This will further enable you to settle on the best one to select for the job.




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