{"id":5447,"date":"2011-11-28T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2012-03-17T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:15:27","slug":"how-to-find-a-lawyer-heres-one-who-communicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"Finding a lawyer: Here’s one who communicates"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s Daily News<\/em>, Clem Richardson writes about a criminal defense case in his column called City Beat.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although usually I don’t talk about criminal defense (Sidebar<\/strong> covers only civil cases), there’s a penetrating point in this article.<\/p>\n

Denise Dowling, the mother of a man arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, hired a New York criminal defense lawyer named Jay Schwitzman to defend her son:<\/p>\n

Over the next seven months, [Dowling] peppered Schwitzman with phone calls and office visits, offering suggestions and any leads, no matter how far-fetched, she thought could help free her son.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I would call him at the office, on his cell phone,” Dowling said. “… But he always took my calls.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“She was a mother trying to save her son,” Schwitzman said. “Of course, I took her calls. Sometimes I had to tell her what she thought was evidence really was not. But she never gave up.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Of course, I took her calls.” That should be every lawyer’s credo.<\/p>\n

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In today’s Daily News, Clem Richardson writes about a criminal defense case in his column called City Beat. Although usually I don’t talk about criminal defense (Sidebar covers only civil cases), there’s a penetrating point in this article. Denise Dowling, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[451,4,5],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-client-lawyer-communications","tag-interpreting-lawyers","tag-talking-to-plaintiffs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t