Consult the Yellow Pages or go to the local library and consult a legal directory. Here is a list of things you should consider or ask in your first call or meeting with the attorney. Representing yourself and using self-help materials. It's legal for you to represent yourself in court and handle your own legal matters, but judges and court personnel aren't allowed to give you any legal advice as your case proceeds. You can ask procedural questions of the court clerk.
Libraries have copies of state and local laws.
Using mediation services. Mediation is a process which helps people in conflict work out a mutually acceptable agreement to disputed issues, with the aid of a trained professional mediat or. Find them through the Yellow Pages or ask a lawyer for a referral. In arbitration, the parties agree to let an impartial arbitrator or panel of arbitrators hear the evidence and decide the outcome of these disputes. Look in the phone book or ask an attorney for names.