Take out your pen and start sketching a plan for how your consultation with your prospective Washington DC DUI lawyer will go. You will need to ask the right questions and make sure that you direct the meeting so that you get the most honest, and detailed, responses to your inquries. When you go to the consultation you need to take charge, and not just make it about being a bragging or teaching session for the lawyer as they may try to make it be. Ask some of the following questions, as well as a few more of your own:

• What do you have to do with my case? Consult only with the person who will be handling your representation.
• What will you charge me? Will the price of representing me change according to events? What events can effect that change? Assuming the worst, what is the highest price I can expect? The lowest?
• What have you been doing with your cases–DUI mostly, or just a few, or none at all? How long have you been practicing law? Do you have any experience working as prosecution rather than defense? Do you often succeed on your DUI cases? Have you handled one like mine before? How did it go?