Simple answer here: You should find a criminal attorney that you are comfortable with before you answer the first telephone call for your new business. I waited until I made the money from the escort business to cover the cost, and there's not any problem with doing it this way. I seriously doubt that you could be on any police agency's radar in the first month of business. You can always correct any legal issue or mistake in your business set-up at this point.
Be prepared to pay for an initial consultation. You would want about an hour of the attorney's time, so expect to spend between $150 and $400 for that consultation. Don't try to be cheap and get it free or for $50 as this will most likely be the attorney that you speak with for the duration of your business if you have a question, a problem that doesn't involve your arrest on charges relating to your business, or just need some solid advice concerning the legally correct way to go about a specific task.
You do want to avoid ever being charged with anything in relation to your escort service, and trust me; this is the way to do so. Here and there you will spend a few hundred dollars, but this shouldn't have much of an effect on your bottom line at all. You don't need the top attorney in town – you simply need an attorney that specializes in criminal law. There are plenty of recent law school graduates walking around that have just passed the bar exam and are eager to offer advice.
I met with an attorney shortly after opening my escort services back in 1992, we had a lengthy relationship, and one in which I could contact him anytime that I had a problem or a question about a situation that could lead to a problem. I just found him in the area yellow pages under the "attorneys – criminal" category. He never gave me bad advice – my arrest had nothing whatsoever to do with anything that I did. His name is John and today he is a circuit court judge, so I won't offer his last name.
Shortly after my arrest in late 2001, we parted ways as I chose to represent myself with the goal of locating an attorney that could take-on a complicated and voluminous organized crime case. John had political aspirations, which made him a lousy candidate to represent me in the criminal case that I faced. I do respect John, so I also won't go into the specifics involved in our parting.
If you are ever arrested in relation to your escort business you will require a different attorney as it's unlikely that the original attorney you chose for occasional advice meets the necessary criteria. How you choose an attorney to represent you in such a criminal case is entirely dependent on the charges and your knowledge of your level of guilt. Realize that you can always have your longtime attorney represent you at first and look at the original indictment or arrest paperwork. An assessment of your chances could then be offered from a legal perspective. Just hold off on paying that attorney any more than an hourly rate at that point.
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