The lemon laws are quite complex, if you feel you have purchased a vehicle that meets the criteria of “lemon” in the state of California then your best course of action is to hire a California lemon law attorney. This may not be as easy as it sounds, when dealing with automobile manufacturers, experience counts. Members of the legal community tend to focus their practice on specific areas of law, an attorney that has not dealt with a lemon law case in the past, or certainly not many of them, will be disadvantaged. It is important that you know from the outset whether you have a strong case or not, an inexperienced attorney may not be able to assess your case properly. There are two possibilities, the attorney may get you involved in a legal matter where you have no chance of winning or the attorney will tell you that your case is weak when the truth is; your case is strong.
As you develop a short list of possible attorneys you need to find out a little about their track record. Find out how long they have been practicing and how many cases involving the California lemon law they have tried. You should expect that the California lemon law attorney you are talking to has tried at least one case in court. The majority of lemon law cases never get to court, they are settled out of court, but it is important that your attorney has tried a case in court, it goes to show he or she knows how to try a case involving lemon law but perhaps more important, it shows the vehicle manufacturer that he knows the law in finite detail.
California law stipulates that the attorney’s fee is paid for by the vehicle manufacturer so you don’t have to be overly concerned about how much it will cost you.
No doubt you will want to know how long the whole process will take. There really is no reliable answer to this question as it is impossible to define the tact that will be taken by the other side. What your attorney can do however is to tell you how long it will take him to file the suit. If, in your opinion, the attorney cannot get to your case in a reasonable amount of time you may want to look for another firm.
Large firms have numerous attorneys, the California lemon law attorney that you detail your case to may not be the attorney that actually handles your case. This is not a problem; you will want to know who your case is assigned to so you can keep in touch.
If you need a California Lemon Law Attorney you should go with a firm that has a proven record in winning cases for their clients. You are invited to turn to Lemon Law America, America’s trusted source for lemon law information.
