Thread by @Hareshraichura

Thread on How NOT to take legal advice.

1/ If you believe that nowadays it is very easy to get legal advice. Then, this thread is for you. This thread may help you to think totally differently on lot of things relating to court cases.

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2/ There are thousands of free resources on internet when a person can ask legal advice. There blogs, articles, paid articles which comes up on search and there are judgements and judgements. Search and you may start receiving calls guiding you free on your legal issue

3/ Some can search lawyers on LinkedIn and can send a hundred inmails seeking advice. Someone may guide him free. "Crowdfunding of Legal Knowledge". Are these methods useful? Or are they just "Baits and Traps"? Have you ever thought in this way?

4/ Suppose you have a medical condition. You search on net..You can know that for your condition, there are 5 medicines. But you may not be able which of them can be taken and what should be the dose. Doses are dependent on age, weight and other conditions of body.

5/ Then each of the five suggested medicines could have different side effects.

Same is about legal profession. One problem can be approached in several forum. How can one decide by getting free advices by sending messeges to several lawyers are by asking about it on twitter?

7/ Free advices of lawyers are seldom useful. Here is a joke which I read 30 years ago.

Some people were on a flying tour in a baloon. Then they saw land. They lowered down baloon to ask someone about the name country on which their baloon was flying.

8/ As they lowered their baloon, they saw a lawyer in black coat walking towards village. They further lowered down baloon and shouted at him,"Where are we?"

The man looked up at baloon, and replied, "You are 50 feet up in the air".

The people in baloon remained clueless.

9/ Another thing you must bear in mind, while searching for legal knowledge on internet, is about "No U Turn" policies of courts. Once you adopt a wrong course of legal action, you may not be allowed to take a U Turn by courts.

10/ Still another thing you should bear in mind, while reading laws on internet is about Non Application of "If This then That" Rule in court proceedings.
The facts can be similar, law can be same, judge can be same, lawyers can be same and yet, the judgement can be different.

11/ Very few lawyers can see the "Trends of the Courts". These trends differ from court to court, from district to district, from high court to high court etc.

The trends are invisible to person not familiar with courts. Trends need to be examined .

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12/ Still another aspect is "Roaster". The cases are assigned to judges as per catagories of judges. Judges have their opinions on legal disputes. This factor is also to be considered while examine a legal issue.

13/ Still another thing to be examined before giving a legal advice is "Mindset of Parties". Some opposite parties can be highly cunning, genius, mighty powerful and full of bags of dirty tricks.

To give legal advise in such cases is a very delicate issue.

14/ Lawyers and Doctors gather knowledge + experience most of the time. Then, how they pay their bills? What do they sell? They sell their "opinions" and "advices" and "Related Services". This is how they maintain their families.

15/ Junior lawyers often receive clients who want them to do their cases free.

In 1987, a senior lawyer advised me, "In free cases, we get only frustrations, and nothing else".

In young age, I was full of desires to help the poor. I ignored his advice. I did many free cases.

16/ Looking back, I see that, that senior lawyer was right.

In 90% of free cases, I received only frustrations.

The poors had a "Sense of entitlement to free legal services".

This affected their logic.

It was difficult to reason with them.

Very difficult to help them.