I'm not sure what you are talking about Liebling. The only things we have here are Legal Aid lawyers and public defenders, that I know of. Legal Aid lawyers are often overworked and underpaid and dont really give a shit about your case. Same thing with public defenders.
Legal Aid lawyers? I guess you mean is Legal Adviser? No, it's not that what I am talking about and also not public defenders, I am talking about.
That's example what we insured for legal family protection for our safety is to hire experience lawyers etc.
Legal protection insurance
Schweizerischer Versicherungsverband SVV | Association Suisse d'Assurances ASA - Legal protection insurance
everything on the list in the link and including legal taxes, house property, vehicle, lawsuits, work, etc.
It's worth!!!
We were being sued by companies few times and won...or we sued companies - sometimes we won or not. Thanks to legal protection insurance, we can look for experience lawyer. Without insurance, we lost because we can't acheive to hire experience lawyer for legal issues. Legal Protection Insurance demand the lawyers to estimate % chance to win... They expect from 50% to 90% chance before they are able to cover the cost for us. It's lawyer's obligation to tell us how many % chance we have... If our chance is too poor then is legal protection insurance's decision either they can pay or not.
Example:
http://www.alldeaf.com/computer-isp-programming/17670-pray-me.html
I can go to lawyer for the advice if I feel unsure something about the letter, etc. or penatly fine, work, Agreement contract, etc. We often leave Agreement Contract to lawyer to examine before we sign. If they found something not okay then they demand the company to add something on the contract before we sign...
About your son case, if you don't know which lawyer is expert for the legal... the let Legal protection officer will look experience lawyer who knows a lot about the case. They paid, not you only if you insured the family legal protection insurance.
I am going to create a new thread about insurance issues later.