I am friends with a local attorney and his relationships are more important than everything else combined.

He made a call and made my fiancee traffic ticket turn into a warning. I don't care about his legal expertise, if 8 have local legal needs he is who I'm going to

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Posted by Joshjrn

Baton Rouge

Member since Dec 2008

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Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:32 am to GenesChin

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I am friends with a local attorney and his relationships are more important than everything else combined.

He made a call and made my fiancee traffic ticket turn into a warning. I don't care about his legal expertise, if 8 have local legal needs he is who I'm going to

In criminal defense, relationships are indeed tremendously important. Generally speaking, asking a criminal defense attorney to travel is a terrible idea. With that said, this only applies if there is a base level of competency there (or if it's an extremely trivial issue, like a traffic ticket).

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Posted by hungryone

river parishes

Member since Sep 2010

11987 posts

Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:42 am to GenesChin

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He made a call and made my fiancee traffic ticket turn into a warning.

Generally speaking, in many LA parishes, a citizen's direct appeal to the DA will yield the same result if your driving record is unblemished.

To OP: the state bar assn has various interest sections tied to areas of law. Most sponsor regular CLEs and networking functions. There are also professional organizations like the LACDL (criminal defense), the LAFJ (trial attys, civil matters), the DA's assn, etc. All sponsor CLEs....as do the four law schools in Louisiana.

Those with very specialized practices (multi jurisdiction toxic torts, med-mal, and so on) are often engaged with national organizations of such attys.

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