The client won’t have to go to court if their attorney has completed all of the paperwork properly, provided there is no objection to the expungement, because the attorney can go to court in their place. The exception is an early pathway expungement when someone tries to delete a felony conviction after five years from the date the sentence was completed, but before the 10-year waiting period is over because they have to prove to the judge that it is in the public interest of the expungement to go through, and they will have to attend that hearing.