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This thread is for your questions that involve legal advice of some sort. This thread is very helpful for explaining general legal concepts that might apply to your circumstances. For example, if you are confused about how to file a lawsuit, and you want to know the general steps, we can explain how that process works in our jurisdiction. If you want to know how to get divorced, we can explain the general process. This thread is not very helpful for evaluating whether you have a legal claim or not, although the law goons have done some of this in the past. This thread is also not useful for telling you what papers to file in court, or how to respond to a lawsuit, or anything like that. For example, if you want to sue someone, we can point you in the right direction but we can’t tell you what to write on your complaint. If you want to get divorced, we aren’t going to help you figure out all of the paperwork that you will need to file. This information is too specific. This thread should not take the place of an attorney in your decision-making process! You should take everything with a handful of salt, and you should still contact a lawyer! If you have a question about law school or being a lawyer, try the Law School Megathread over here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3203215 If you have a question about taxes, try the Income Tax Megathread over here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2649574 If you have a question that you want to ask in this thread, you should probably ask a lawyer too, so here is a link to a website that has contact information for the lawyer referral services of all fifty states: http://www.statebarassociations.org/lrs.htm Check that website, find your state, call the phone number and tell the person who answers that you want a referral for an attorney. If you must post your question here, please follow these guidelines: 1. Tell us what jurisdiction you are in! Generally, this means that you should tell us what state you are in. Most of the questions that are asked in this thread involve areas of law such as landlord/tenant, personal injury, criminal law, family law, employment law, and contracts. These areas of law are very state-specific, so please please please tell us your jurisdiction! A Florida attorney isn’t going to know the answer to a question involving Minnesota law. Make sure your post includes your state at least. You don’t need to include your city or county, in general, and you probably shouldn’t reveal that much information on the internet anyway. 2. Are you involved in an active lawsuit? Have you been sued? Are you suing someone? Do not talk about your case here. It is possible, although it is not likely, that your comments here will be discovered by the opposing side. It would be very bad for you to say things that could be construed as defamation, or for you to reveal information that you do not want the other side to know. If you are involved in a lawsuit and you do not have an attorney, GO GET ONE. Do not bother asking us about your problem because you shouldn’t be talking about it here, and unless one of us law goons is in your jurisdiction we can’t really help you anyway. 3. Are you a criminal defendant? Get a lawyer, and do not talk about your case here. This is a public space, and you do not want to admit to anything that you wouldn’t have told the cops already. For both rules #2 and #3, if you feel that you absolutely must talk about your ongoing lawsuit, check with your attorney to make sure that they at least know about it. It is probable that they will tell you not to talk about it here. 4. Do you disagree with your lawyer’s advice? Don’t come into this thread looking for us to take your side. Generally speaking, your attorney will know more about the local judges, prosecutors, and other attorneys. Your attorney will be much better informed about the facts of your case and the proper strategies to employ. We can give you a general sense of legal doctrines, but we cannot competently critique your attorney’s performance. If you do not like your lawyer, or you think your lawyer is not competent, that’s perfectly OK. The proper response is for you to find another lawyer! See the above link if you need a referral. 5. Did you suffer some relatively minor injury, and you want to know how much you can sue for? There have been a couple of these posts in the last year, where a goon says “Hey I slipped and fell and I’m not really hurt, but I feel like I could get some sort of compensation.” Or, to use a more recent example, one goon stated that their box of candy contained bad product. General rule of thumb: if something bad happens to you, but you aren’t really injured and generally you are going to be just fine, do not sue anyone just because you want money. If you ask about this sort of thing here, we law goons will mock you and generally treat you like scum. 6. And lastly, if you are not a lawyer please don’t argue with those of us who are attorneys. If we tell you that The Law means X, and you don’t like that response, please do not argue that The Law REALLY means Y. We aren’t trying to fight with you or make you feel bad, so don’t act like we are your enemies just because you didn’t get the answer you wanted. It’s a disincentive for law goons to participate in this thread when people argue with us as those they understand the law better than we do.
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