I missed my court date for my traffic ticket
To date, this topic is the number one reason people find my website. Crazy, huh?
It’s crazy for several reasons. First, handling traffic tickets is only about 5% of what I do in my law practice, so it’s very much the internet tail wagging the website dog here. I’m a small town lawyer that handles mostly injury claims; handling tickets is just something I do to help my local friends. But that’s fine. I like attention.
Second, I’m so surprised at how often this happens to people. I’m not judging, I’m just surprised that given how easy it is to hire an attorney to represent you it still can happen.
Yes. It’s that easy. There’s just a two-step process to hiring me (and probably many other attorneys for that matter). First, you call me at 919-929-2992 to process your attorney fee payment over the phone. Depending on the county, the charge varies. See this link for details.
Second, you go to this page to fill out my online representation agreement to authorize me to appear for you. Just fill it out and hit “submit” and that’s that!
“What?” you ask. “But my ticket says there is a ‘mandatory court appearance’; doesn’t that mean I have to show up?”
NO! That’s where they get you. What they mean when that’s on there is that you can’t just pay it off. Someone has to show up. You or your attorney. So you can avoid that by hiring an attorney. Perhaps one like me. Perhaps me.
So there is absolutely no reason to miss your court date. When you get a ticket, call me or another attorney and there’s a good chance we can help.
If you have already missed your court date, call me anyway! It may be a bit more of a mess but there’s hope we can clean it up without too much hassle. It’s really never too late. And remember, if you don’t take care of that, your license will be revoked indefinitely until you handle it.
Call me now and see what I can do.