While a majority of those facing Federal charges opt to go with the Federal Defender, their are still many people that choose to hire a “paid attorney”. In the Federal system most of the defendants decide to plea and in many cases a Federal Defender can help mitigate the sentence and negotiate the plea agreement, however whether you’re taking it to trial or pleading out, here are some tips to hiring a lawyer for your Federal case

1. Make sure the attorney you want to hire has actually done Federal work and is admitted to the circuit that your case is out of. The attorney you’re talking to may be one of the best at State criminal defense, however without Federal experience you may run into some problems.
2. Ask how many cases he or she has won and how many have plead out verses going to trial. If they say they’ve never lost, they’re lying.
3. Make sure that the lawyer you choose has represented defendants with similar charges to yours. You don’t want to hire a criminal defense attorney that specializes in “white collar’ crime, for your drug conspiracy case.
4. In the same vane as #3, you don’t want to hire an “ambulance chaser” to represent you in Federal Court. If your attorney advertises all over the place for personal injury, you may want to choose somebody else.

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