Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“So, I assume since only 10 percent of your clients have testified in court on their behalf, that most of the time, the vast majority of the time, they listen to your advice?”
Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA
“Yes. I would say the vast majority of the time they listen to my advice. But that’s also something that you start laying the groundwork on from the first meeting. Anybody that’s looking to hire an attorney…you’ve got to price your attorney…you’ve got to look at experience. One of the things you want to really do is…can you look your attorney in the eye and trust them?”
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“Actually, that’s one of the things that I tell my clients. I say, listen, you need to go interview three or four. And you need to talk to them, you need to develop this rapport because this person has to look out for you.”
Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA
“Yes, and if your attorney has bad news for you, or some advice to take a deal, or some analysis of your case that doesn’t seem great, you need to know that your attorney know what they’re doing and trust they’ve done the work. And trust they know the law and trust their advice to you is well grounded. If you don’t trust that from your attorney, you’re nowhere.”
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“Well, you shouldn’t have hired them in the first place, that’s for sure.”