Clients need to have an attorney with experience in this area, and expertise. And there’s a number of reasons. A couple of them are that in federal courts, which is where Section 1983 and these civil rights laws are litigated, there are a number of pitfalls that you need to be aware of that practitioners who don’t have experience in this area may fall victim to. You need to be aware of those, and the clients need to understand them. There are also a number of benefits to being in federal court, litigating Section 1983 cases, that practitioners without that experience don’t know about.

So, you need to be aware of both the pitfalls and the benefits that are there in the law, and the cases that have been decided on these issues, to get the maximum value out of your cases for the clients.