only by order of judge or if the client stops payment to the lawer
Most DUI/DWI attorneys overcharge and clients cannot afford their services.
Personal injury attorneys make too much money off of their clients.
Criminal attorneys do many things for there clients. They counsel, strategize, problem-solve, write, advocate and negotiate. They will try to find a way to keep you from going to jail and let the truth be heard.
Some do. It depends on the attorney, the firm (if there is one), and the relationship with the client.
Many attorneys offer free services to a few clients every year, including family law attorneys.
Court appointed attorneys must talk to their clients because they need to understand the client's view of the situation in order to defend the client effectively.
Paul Lancia, Howard Swartz, and Joel Schwartz are just three names of personal injury attorneys in Massachusetts, specialised in protecting their clients.
Legal malpractice attorneys prosecute other lawyers that are incompetent or negligent. Legal malpractice firms represent clients that claim their lawyer has not settled their case to the best of their ability.
A tentative settlement is the settlement of a lawsuit by the attorneys or even the parties that is conditional upon some other action or fact. Sometimes a settlement is arrived at in principle subject to a final review of the exact terms as written in a settlement agreement. In a lawsuit, the attorneys representing the parties have an idea of the parameters within which their clients will settle the case. Many times the attorneys make a tentative settlement between them that they think will be acceptable to the clients. The settlement is tentative because it is conditioned on actual approval by the clients themselves.
Mintz Levin consists of a group of attorneys whose job is to get to the roots of the problems of their clients and offer them solutions. Their claim is that they immerse themselves in their clients industries. Their job is to advise their clients what's ahead, what to watch out for and where the opportunities are. The main service of the attorneys who are from complimentary practices and geographies is to address the rapidly changing legal and regulatory environment of many industries.
Yes you can! I have done so, and all attorneys I know will refuse you to take one too until it is court ordered!
Attorneys act as advisors and spokesmen for their clients, when they're acting as attorneys. They don't act idependently of their clients, so it is up to the client to decide for himself if he is making the "right" decision. An attorney will only advise. That's not a decision. Most attorneys act in their client's best interest, to not do so is malpractice. And they wouldn't do very well professionally if they gave bad advice.