Q: Will you personally handle all aspects of my case or delegate certain tasks to other members of your team?
Charitsis Law is a legal team of senior and experienced criminal defence lawyers, we’re not one lawyer with a secretary.
A senior lawyer will be in charge of the case and lead the team in preparing your defence. The lawyer together with your legal team works on background work, pre-trial discussions, legal arguments, criminal trial preparation and organizing any experts that we’ll have for trial.
Many of the court appearances we’ll appear for you, saving you the stress of appearing for remands and other court hearings. Where and if the case goes to trial, then we’ll want you to be there in court to be part of the defence, providing your input, while working together with your lead trial lawyer.
Q: What information should I bring to my initial meeting with the lawyer?
The first meeting we want to listen to you and hear what happened.
Where the police have given you documents like release forms, breathalyzer test results, or bail hearing documents we’d like to review and discuss the contents with you while checking for errors and omissions that can help your case.
We want to have a clear understanding of the events leading to the arrest, what happened during and what happened at the police station. Many times, small details can lead to defences that can win your case.
At some point we’ll ask you to sit down and write out what happened (your statement and version of events), and we recommend that you do this as soon as possible, as memories can fade. (The police write out their statement usually before the end of shift).