{"id":357945,"date":"2016-04-04T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/hirealawyer.html"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:44:26","slug":"hirealawyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/hirealawyer.html","title":{"rendered":"Guide To Hiring a Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Guide To Hiring a Lawyer<\/h1>\n

    FindLaw’s Guide to Hiring a Lawyer not only helps you determine when you should hire a lawyer, but it also\u00a0helps you choose the right lawyer, understand legal fees, contingency fees, and retainer agreements, and get peace of mind. Lawyers can seem expensive, but not having legal counsel to provide legal advice and legal services can be far more costly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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    How To Choose Your Lawyer<\/h2>\n

    There will be times in your life when you’ll need to have legal representation. A lawyer can help you resolve a dispute with neighbors, handle a divorce case or adoption, enforce your rights in the workplace, or even avoid civil and criminal penalties. However, a lawyer is not necessary for all legal procedures, which is why FindLaw provides free legal information and do-it-yourself resources.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n\n

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    There will likely be times in your life when you’ll require legal representation, but how do you know which attorney is the right one for you? FindLaw’s Guide to Hiring a Lawyer will show you how to find the lawyer you need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41135,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/LandingPageController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","footnotes":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"categories":[2754],"tags":[],"state_laws_tags":[],"flmsa":[],"class_list":["post-357945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-hirealawyer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391487,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357945\/revisions\/391487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357945"},{"taxonomy":"state_laws_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_laws_tags?post=357945"},{"taxonomy":"flmsa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/flmsa?post=357945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}