Contact your local bar association if you need a lawyer. Bar associations provide the public with referrals for different kinds of lawyer and also receive complaints. If you need to do some background research on a lawyer, contact your local bar association to find out if anyone has filed a complaint against this lawyer. The state bar will also let you know if there have been any ethical complaints or inquiries filed against the lawyer. This could alert you to some potential problems and save you some money and time beforehand.
