Charged with a crime? What you should know!

Generally people will only seek legal advice when they are notified of a police or bureaucrat investigation. Or they might have been involved in an incident and they might think they could have done something wrong or they might know they have done something wrong over a long period of time and they will seek advice on it.
The golden rule would be the more that is known at the earliest possible time the better the chances of successfully dealing with it. The longer something is left to set in stone the harder it is to deal with it. A trial lawyer as opposed to a lawyer who simply advises people to plead guilty can look at the facts and fit them into what he or she knows is going to occur in court right down the line not just from a factual point of view but also from a procedural point of view. That is why when you are telling your story to a trial lawyer you might be thinking what is this person on. Why are they not reacting to this extremely important information that I am telling them which I believe is the key to my future sucessful defence. It will not be because they are not listening it will be that they are considering what you are saying from the point of view of whether it constitutes a defence of whether there are other issues which arise from what you are saying.