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Saturday, December 02,
2006
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The Truths about
finding legal advice on the web
When trying to locate an attorney over
the web you need to keep in mind a few
things. No. 1 - Where is the
information you are getting coming from?
and No. 2 - Do they know what they are
talking about? Say for instance you
search for free legal services. The
search pulls up companies by which you
first subscribe to their services before
you can obtain the information you are
looking for. This will include giving
out personal information that will
probably in turn make for a lot of
unwanted e-mail offers. Sometimes these
sites will have attorney directories o
look up attorneys in different states.
Keep in mind this site may have been
abandoned or hasn't been updated in a
long time, so check the dates on the
material you are reading. Information
from a site ending in org seemed to be
more useful correct in my searches.
In the case that you want to act as
your own attorney i.e. pro se … you
can always go to a government site
for the County you are going to be
taking care of legal matters in and
get some information. For instance,
the Johnson County government site
has links to the local rules and
court procedures for you to
research. Also, they provide a lot
of sample forms that are used to sue
another person or company. There
are companies that provide "divorce
packets" and other such things. I
don't advise using these services.
I've worked in the courthouse and or
an attorney's office for 7 years now
and have learned that every County
and State has very different rules
as to procedure … i.e. how they what
their paperwork prepared. These
State employees don't get paid that
well and don't want to mess with
your incorrect paperwork…. They will
just mail it back to you. So
instead of risking that the
paperwork you buy from some company
online is not up to date on your
particular local rules, just go to
straight to the source and answer
some of your own questions for free.
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