Tornado Cash and collateral damage

Posted Aug 25, 2022 7:08 UTC (Thu) by brunowolff (guest, #71160)
In reply to: Tornado Cash and collateral damage by Wol
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I remember reading reading a long time ago about old money knowing you want to pay your lawyer a retainer in advance so that they will defend you even if your assets are frozen. This is an option generally only available to the wealthy though.

Tornado Cash and collateral damage

Posted Aug 25, 2022 10:57 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Some time ago I was curious about retaining a lawyer. Turns out that almost no "regular" law firms do that. The movie-style "I need to call my lawyer" is not even available for merely affluent, you need to be truly rich.

The closest thing is LegalShield that sells an "insurance-style" subsciption.

Retaining a lawyer

Posted Aug 25, 2022 11:30 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Are you trying to retain a lawyer "just because"?

Down here you can walk into a lawyer's office, ask for a consultation (for a fee, obviously) and, if said lawyer tells that you have a case to complain or that you need legal defense, *then* you retain said lawyer, and in the documents you file together with the case or defense you must file the "letter of attorney" that specifies the scope of the retention (just for this case, for any related legal case, for any related case from now on etc).