A drunk driving charge (DWI/DUI) doesn’t have to wreck your bank account or cost you your driving license. Christopher Combs and Steven Waterkotte of Combs Waterkotte discuss what you should look for when hiring a DWI attorney.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: What should you look for when hiring a DUI attorney?
Steve Waterkotte: Number one is somebody, a firm, a lawyer, who does this as the primary practice. We are a criminal defense firm, which obviously entails DWIs. And so I always tell folks, about 95% of our practice is criminal defense. The other part, orders of protection, which in many cases are criminal or quasi criminal.
So somebody who does this day in and day out. At Combs Waterkotte, our firm, we have three full time attorneys, four full time staff. And this is what we all do every single day. We have a number of DWIs each week, each month. We have a system in place to ensure that that client is getting the proper attention, focus, knowledge. Every year, our attorneys do CLEs, and we do it in the field of DWI, where we had the same training as the officers.
So somebody who specializes, I would say, is the number one thing. And then [the] second component would be somebody, a firm or a lawyer, that is accessible. That you know what’s going on. You’re [that you’re] comfortable with. You’re frequently updated as to the progress of their case.
They’re involved in the decisions. It always makes the attorney-client relationship 100% better when they’re involved [and] they know what’s going on each step of the way. That’s something that we provide at our firm.
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