“There is a referral channel most criminal defense firms underuse, even though it is right next to them.
When someone gets arrested at 2am, the first call is rarely an attorney. It is a bail bondsman. The family is panicking, the clock is moving, and a name has to come out of someone’s mouth fast.
The lawyer who already has a working relationship with the bondsmen in their area is the name that gets given. The lawyer who does not is the lawyer the family has never heard of.
It is not a complicated dynamic. Bondsmen want clients out, attorneys aligned with their clients, and firms that pay attention to the people who walk in scared at 3am. They give referrals to the lawyers who treat them like adults and the work like real work.
Most criminal defense firms have never built that relationship. The ones that have are the ones whose phones ring at strange hours.”
– Hugo E. Gomez, Founder (Abogados NOW)
The channel most criminal defense firms still ignore: