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How to Choose the Right Legal Representative

Filipiniana News –   February 2019 By Maria Deanna P. Santos For this month, I would like to take a break from the usual immigration law updates that I had been writing about in previous articles.   Instead, please allow me to provide some practical tips in finding the right legal representative and help ease the work relationship on both sides. As in most everything else, achieving a good and satisfying relationship involves a two-way process.    The same applies in choosing and eventually working with a lawyer or other legal representative.   If you are thinking of consulting with or retaining a lawyer’s services, I hope that the suggestions and guidelines below will help make the experience a positive and productive one.   Since I obviously cannot speak for all lawyers or legal representatives, the suggestions below are mainly based on my own limited experience. First of all, your choice of a legal representative should not be driven solely by financial considera