Leveraging may be great for Dayton criminal defense lawyers but bad for you. Leveraging is a way that lawyers can "magnify profits" by delegating work to associates, law clerks or paralegals. Here is just one article on leveraging.
Leveraging may be great for the lawyer, but what does leveraging mean for you? In my experience and from talking to clients who have used popular law firms in the past, leveraging means you think you are paying loads of money for some popular lawyer when it turns out you are paying loads of money for some associate or paralegal to work on your case.
Some popular Dayton firms are so brazen that they will even send associates in to represent you in trial courts. With those firms there is no hiding the fact that the popular lawyer you gave your life savings to when you signed the fee agreement does not make appearances in your case (unless of course yours is a "high profile" case that can land the popular partner on the local news). This seems to happen a lot in the Dayton area, but people seem to put up with it.
Having some associate show up in the trial court is bad enough, but what about appeals? When you hire a popular lawyer for your appeal do you know who will actually do the work? Is the popular partner going to work on your case or will they delegate the work to some associate they hired, another lawyer in town, or a law clerk or paralegal? How will you know? If the popular lawyer delegates the work, do you think they will spend the time shadowing everything the underling does? Will they spend the time to closely read the transcripts, view the exhibits, do the research and write the briefs? That would defeat the purpose of leveraging. And leveraging allows the popular partner to take your money and have someone else do the work. This is okay if you hired the popular firm because you wanted their paralegal to try to get your conviction reversed.
Keep this in mind when you are deciding whether to hire some popular lawyer in an office full of "associates," "assistants," and paralegals. You may actually get what you are paying for if you hire a lawyer like myself who will be "hands on" and who will not use you as leverage to pad their income. When you hire a popular law firm in Dayton, you may be actually paying more for less. Wouldn't you rather pay less for more?
If you are accused of a crime or have been convicted already, contact me if you can afford to hire a private criminal defense lawyer. Otherwise, contact your county or state public defender to see if they can help.
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