How do i search to find out if a lawyer is competent and ethical
You are seeking two traits in your potential lawyer – Competence and Ethics. I must say it is very easy to gauge whether he is competent. You merely look at his qualifications and, if you wish, which University he went to. What is very tricky to measure is a lawyer’s ethics.
Again, I think, it’s not very tricky as I believe, Law, like all respectable professions, has a code of conduct to which memebers subscribe and within which members operate. If a lawyer has had his practice licence and is always having it renewed year after year, it means he is performing satifactorily according to their professional standards association. Failure to heed the stipulations in the standard professional code usually leads to deregistration and shall have led to your potential lawyer’s deregistration before you come to try to hire him.
