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what makes our firm different is the
level of experience we have with three
lawyers with a total number of years
practicing criminal law of
61 I myself have 47 years experience in
a career where I have only practiced
criminal law my first five years was as
a public defender the next five years
were as a prosecutor and the 37 years
since I’ve been in private practice and
we focus on the entire range of criminal
matters and this allows us to handle the
unexpected there’s almost nothing that I
have not seen in Trials or other court
experiences and uh that helps the client
whether it’s on trial or trying to get a
plea agreement
filed clients can expect that we’re
always going to be there for them
whenever there’s a question or a concern
we’re going to make sure that we’re
explaining it as best we can to keep
anyone that we’re representing as fully
informed and up toate on their case as
possible and that doesn’t just count for
our clients it counts for their families
as well uh we know that criminal cases
affect not just the people who are
charged but their families and their
loved ones and so part of our practice
here is to make sure that we are keeping
those people up to date on what’s going
on and incorporating them on our
discussions with our clients we don’t
leave emails unanswered we don’t leave
calls UNR returned we make sure that our
clients are a full part of the process
and understand and know everything
that’s happening in their cases
there are essentially three criteria
that you want to focus on when you’re
hiring an attorney the first is
experience you want someone who’s got
the knowledge and knowhow who knows what
they’re doing and who’s respected by
both the Commonwealth the prosecutor’s
office as well as the bench the judges
second you want them to listen to you in
order for a good attorney to fight for
his client I view it as I have to listen
to what my clients goals are listen to
their story their version of the facts
and put their version into action
whether it’s at trial uh or trying to
resolve the case or at emotion to
suppress too often lawyers think they
know everything they know what to do
they know what what’s best to do in a
case uh they know how to handle
everything I don’t really believe that
that’s the way things should be it’s
very important for lawyers to listen to
their client and real realize their
goals the third criteria is you want
someone who will craft a team approach
where in a case calls for an expert for
an
investigator uh for different types of
advocacy that may be not traditional
whether it’s developing mitigation
evidence or a novel uh defense to
present it trial you want a lawyer who’s
brave enough uh to do that and to carry
that out and knows what they’re doing
Boston, MA criminal defense attorneys J. W. Carney Jr., Dan Gaudet, and Nat Carney talk about makes their firm different, the level of service clients can expect, and what to look for in hiring an attorney.