Any lawyers here wiing to give advice?

I'm in a bit of a pickle but it's kind of a weird one.  And I don't really want to discuss here because it's all pending.

Is her name Amy?

Many employers offer a legal referral service as part of the employee benefits.  Basically they give you a number to call, you outline the generalities, and they refer you to a local attorney who works in the relevant part of the law.  I used one once, they gave me a free 30 minute initial consultation over the phone, which was enough to determine whether or not I needed to hire an attorney for real (fortunately in my case the answer was no).

You at least need to say what type of lawyer you need.  A real estate lawyer will be only minor help with probate matters, and so on.

I'd hit up https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/ with a throw away account.  It'll be completely anonymous and usually gets halfway decent results.

Lawyers are always willing to give advice.  The key word that you left out of your title is "free" and the answer to that question is almost always 'NO.'

Most lawyers will give the the free advice that you should secure the services of a lawyer familiar with the type of law you are concerned with in your area.

Mr_Asa said:

You at least need to say what type of lawyer you need.  A real estate lawyer will be only minor help with probate matters, and so on.

I'd hit up https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/ with a throw away account.  It'll be completely anonymous and usually gets halfway decent results.

You're batting .500 with your advice here.  You wouldn't ask a proctologist to do your eye surgery.  We all have specialties and most of us don't know enough to be competent outside of the areas we practice in.   If you're not even sure if you need a lawyer or what type of lawyer to start with, PM me and maybe I can help.  

That said, for the love of god don't go to /r/legaladvice.  Almost none of the contributors are lawyers, and the advice they give is frequently laughably bad.  Not kidding, actual lawyers (including me) peruse it when we need a laugh.  When an actual lawyer does post they often get shouted down. 

If you know what kind of lawyer you need, call your local state bar referral service and they should be able to at least tell you who practices that type of law in your area.  

The reason most lawyers can't or won't give in-depth advice over the internet isn't because we're cheap.  It's because if we give you advice based on your situation and you rely on that advice, we've just created an attorney-client relationship.  If we give you bad advice based on an incomplete or incorrect understanding of the situation, then we've just committed professional malpractice, which is a big deal if we want to keep calling ourselves lawyers.  

In reply to psteav (Forum Supporter) :

To be fair, I only see the posts on there that end up on r/all, and then I only read the OP's post and maybe the top four or five posts, so then its at least a popular post and that usually brings out the actual lawyers.  Then all the comments are "yeah, get an actual lawyer."

I've been practicing for 20+ years, and if it's out of my specialty (or out of my jurisdiction), I use the Tommy Lee Jones line from "Rules of Engagement":  "I'm a good enough lawyer to know you need a better lawyer than me."  

As psteav says, most free Innanet Lawyer advice is laughably bad at best, potentially personally harmful at worst.  

My father-in-law always talked ALL THE TIME about the free lawyer that his UAW union provides.  He contacts them with a neighbor issue two summers ago and he finds out it's a reduced-cost lawyer.  

He ponies up $600 and the guy doesn't do anything but ask for a bunch of useless pictures and information then got silent.  FIL was embarrassed and dropped his whole neighbor lawsuit. 

"FREE" 

This isn't exactly the internet. To me this forum is more like friends and aunts and uncles that I only see at weddings/funerals but talk to all the time.  I was more looking for "you need to call a ____" or I know a guy/gal in your area, I'll give them your info" type advice.  I REALLY  don't want to rely on a public defender in the tiny podunk town I was in who probably goes fishing with the judge and the police chief and his daughter is married to the DA

If my reason for doing what I did can be shown as necessary I didn't do anything wrong.  Sticky situation at best.

In reply to psteav (Forum Supporter) :

Pm sent

Justjim75 said:

In reply to psteav (Forum Supporter) :

Pm sent

Never got it - email me, it's my username at that Google email service people seem to use a lot