I know the economy these days sucks. You may have lost your job. You may have a job that sucks and doesn’t pay you any money. You probably bought your house at the height of the real estate boom and now owe more on it than it’s worth. And now you’ve just been busted for DUI and are on the prowl for a good Seattle DUI attorney.
Well, I’ve got some news for you. You are going to have to have a difficult decision to make. You are going to have to decide if your future, if your reputation, if your livelihood are worth the price of a good DUI attorney or if you are going to sign up with the cheapest person you can find. It could be a decision that follows you for the rest of your life.
This isn’t to say that you need to go out there and get the best DUI lawyer out there, far from it. What this article is about is making you aware that there are people out there that charge ridiculously cheap fees, sign up a bunch of people, and don’t really do much work on their cases at all. In the truest sense, those people get what they pay for.
But why do criminal defense fees cost so much? Why can’t they be more reasonable, like the plumber or the electrician? The answer is simple – your life is on the line. A DUI conviction in most states guarantees some jail time (for first time DUIs it is one day in jail). The DUI attorney Seattle you hire needs to be someone that can dedicate the time to your case it takes to have the information necessary to show the prosecutor why they should back off your case.
In the end the person you hire is going to be up to you. You can take the easy way out and go with the cheapest, but you may be seriously compromising your future.
