White Collar 101: Watch This Before Hiring A Lawyer

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White Collar 101: Hiring A Criminal Defense Attorney. Justin Paperny and Geoff Mousseau provide their observations and experiences on how to hire a criminal defense attorney. If you are being investigated for a white collar crime or need a lawyer, you must watch this video.


Hi. This is Justin Paperny with White Collar Advice. I’m here with my friend and partner and college Geoff Mousseau. Geoff is a former lawyer and like me a conducted felon, who endured some time in federal prison camp. And today we’re going to talk about how to hire a criminal defense attorney. I got to admit Geoff, when I hired a lawyer I kind of believed whatever they told me. I really quickly scratched them a check and I didn’t knew any new diligence, didn’t ask any questions, and like a lot of the people that reach out to us, they have some wonderful lawyers, but some have regrets over the due diligence they put in in hiring their lawyers. So, I know a lot of people reach out to us for the prison preparation, life on the inside for the probation, but if you are lucky enough to watch this before actually hiring a lawyer, you can learn from our mistakes and profit from our experiences in retaining the best council. So Geoff, let me turn it over to you. Give us a little summary of your experience, and as a lawyer how you came to hire a criminal defense attorney?
Geoff Mousseau: Well, Justin in this regard I, as you pointed out, I am an attorney. I am no longer licensed, and from that perspective I had the opportunity prior to having my own case of engaging criminal defense attorneys for other clients of mine in the past. So, I had some experience with it by the time I had to do it for myself. And based on my experience, there were three primary things that I looked for:
1. I looked for the experience of the attorney;
2. I look for price.
3. And, also the rapport between the attorney and the client.
Justin Paperny: Now, let me jump in for a second. A number of people who reach out to us, when they're looking at lawyers can be enamored by the fact that their criminal defense attorney is a former US attorney. And I know that’s very impressive. We work with a lot of lawyers that are former US attorneys. David Rosenfeld who is a member of our directory; a lawyer in New York, is an excellent defense attorney; was a US attorney. Did that- was your lawyer a former US attorney? Did that factor into your decision-making? Walk us through that.
Geoff Mousseau: Yes. When you are dealing with federal crimes, if you have the ability generally speaking to hire a former US attorney, you are hiring somebody, who by definition has the type of experience and has worked in the arena, probably, usually with the same set of judges who are going to be handling that side of your case. They are usually more expensive, and that is not always the most important thing to consider. Depending on the nature of your, the alleged defense, sometimes the person with the most experience is a US public defender.