(Edit: there you go, post above edited to include a referral.)
(Edit 2: OP should probably delete the substantive parts of their post or just delete the entire thing. It will show up on Google and their lawyers will find it.)
(Edit: there you go, post above edited to include a referral.)
(Edit 2: OP should probably delete the substantive parts of their post or just delete the entire thing. It will show up on Google and their lawyers will find it.)
Why not? They some kind of information cartel running some kind of racket?
Go to any for-lawyers-by-lawyers subreddit and they will happily explain why. Here's the Australian /r/AusLaw's explanation, linked in the sidebar and in a advice-request-detector bot:
https://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/zuv4m/why_cant_we_p...
That's why lawyers and doctors live in fine houses and drive fancy cars. They don't give away for free the knowledge that they worked hard to attain over a decade or more.
(1) It’s easy to form an seemingly-inadvertent attorney-client relationship.
(2) Once you have an attorney-client relationship, you have many duties to the client under the ethics rules.
(3) Once you form an attorney-client relationship, you can potentially be subject to a malpractice suit (justified or not) if things go sideways.
In general, lawyers tend to be open to discussing legal issues in ways that don’t involve advice to specific people about their specific situations. They are many (many, many many) legal publications where lawyers give away their knowledge for free or the cost of the issue/article/book/etc. They just don’t usually want to form attorney-client relationships lightly.
> *If there are actual or threatened legal proceedings, anything posted on this website may potentially be used in evidence against a person.*
At the very least, tell the lawyer you end up hiring that you posted this. They would really, really want to know.