Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California
It is great to have a site like Lawguru. It is a sad truth that some heavily compensated attorneys don't know every significant little details and will not ask simple questions about details because they don't want anybody to know and they do not have the time to research the answer or trust the paralegal to do the research. They very often go on assumpltion and if anything goes wrong their clients pay for it. I believe Lawguru is an invaluable learning forum for all that will not be too proud to admit they do not know and ask.
This is invaluabel resource to determine who you can trust to represent you. I believe I can be a part of my favorable outcome or my dispute.
Is it against policy to use Lawguru as a discussion forum ? or a great back scratching tool.
Must those who are offended by a particular question respond to it by demand of Lawguru policy?
3 Answers from Attorneys
There are simply too many "significant little details" for any attorney to know. Thus, it is often the case that attorneys must do research even on matters in which they are quite familiar.
With that said, I don't understand your questions.
The purpose of Lawguru is to provide a vehicle by which people can obtain from attorneys who choose to answer relatively brief responses to specific, narrowly drawn legal questions. It is not intended to be a forum to discuss the merits or morality of legal issues or results. Nor can the answers cover all the details that might be involved in a case; for most questions answered, attorney receive no monetary compensation, so their replies have other more immediate reasons [giving back to the community, helping people out, hoping that a response might result in a possible future client contact, etc.]. No attorney is forced to answer any question they do not want to respond to; most will not respond to a question that has largely already been answered.
By my count this is at least the 14th question you have asked about your case in the past week. There may well have been several others. You are trying to use this site for the kind of legal guidance you can only get by hiring a lawyer. The site cannot fill that role for you. It exists to give people general guidance about the law, not to walk them through every step of an actual case. It's not set up to do what you want it to do. Your questions each provide limited information, and are often answered by different lawyers who do not realize what you have said previously. What's more, you are making unreasonable demands on our limited resources.
I have pointed these things out to you before, not because I am "offended" but because I am a responsible participant in this site who wants neither to see it abused nor to see a user destroy his case by relying so heavily on the site that he makes mistakes a retained lawyer would never have made.