What makes my firm different than other law firms is that in Pasetsky Law, we concentrate on trial. I only concentrate and take cases that are felony cases in federal and state courts all around the country, with an eye to a trial. When somebody comes to me, sometimes I’m not the first lawyer on the case or the second lawyer on the case, but they come to me because they know that I will fight their case all the way through trial and give them the best chance to win their case outright.

In some other law firms, when they have a client come in, they tell a good story to get the client to hire them and pay them. But then the first thing that they do is try to convince the client to plead guilty or become a cooperator. I don’t do that in my firm. Of course, there are clients that do plea guilty because they want to, but they will never have me convince them to do so, and they have to make that decision on their own. In fact, I would give them the options of going to trial or getting a deal and pleading guilty, and they will have to make that decision.

But when they come to me, they know that I try my cases. So, I compare myself to a doctor, and I, in fact, compare myself to a surgeon. I need to do surgery on you; you are right now very sick. You have been accused of a crime, and you might be spending a very long period of time in prison if you lose the case. So, my job is to try to cut out that cancer out of your life. How do you do that? Similar to when you pick a doctor. Who do you want to be your surgeon? Who do you want to take care of you and make sure that you heal perfectly?

Because people understand and know doctors more than they know lawyers because obviously people have gone to doctors all their lives, I say you pick a lawyer similar to the way you pick a doctor. If you feel comfortable, you look at their background, you look at their work, you do a little due diligence, and you check them out. Then you come and meet with them, and I encourage new clients that do not know me to go and meet with other lawyers. I don’t have a problem with that. I’m very proud of what I do and how I do it, and that’s the reason why I encourage them to go and meet with other lawyers. Then they will see the difference between me and other lawyers.