Having an attorney who knows the players helps unless it was a complicated expungement. In those cases, it won’t matter who the attorney knew, as long as they put in all the proper information, in which case it should be granted. I handled one recently in which there were some interesting factual distinctions in a petition the person tried to do on their own. The prosecutor objected, but I knew him and his personality, so I knew how I could make this go through quickly and I did. It was just a matter of knowing the players, like the saying, It doesn’t matter what you know, it’s who you know.