About Us
Our mission is to educate and empower every working person in the United States so they are never taken advantage of by their employer or any other businesses to which they may suffer harm. We will educate you about your legal rights and create a comprehensive plan to address your legal needs. We guarantee a relationship of ongoing trust, transparency and communication.
Practice Areas
Legal representation for a wide range of practice areas
Labor & Employment Disputes
Workplace Discrimination
Practice Areas
Legal representation for a wide range of practice areas
Labor & Employment Disputes
Workers Compensation Issues
Tax Disputes and Returns
Workplace Discrimination
Unpaid Wages & Theft
Immigration Law
How we are different
Finding the right lawyer is very similar to finding the right doctor. When trying to locate the best service provider, we all look for two things- trust and competency. In the legal space, its very difficult for someone to determine if their lawyer is actually providing good advice because the law is unpredictable. Even the best lawyers lose cases in court. So, how do you know who to choose when your outcome is unpredictable? By the guiding values and philosophy of the law firm.
At El-Hag & Associates, PC, we know that your case is unique. We provide honest guidance and take caution in guiding you to make the best decision in your case. For example, we hardly every take hourly fee clients because we like to find good cases and partner with our clients by only getting paid if we succeed. But, sometimes people have offered to pay us hourly fees when we turn their case down. And we tell the clients we will not take their money because their case is so risky that the chance of getting their money back is very unlikely. Many times, these clients go to other lawyers who are happy to take their hard-earned money for a losing case. That is not part of our philosophy.
We want to be your lawyer for life.
We also do not deceive you by giving advice on things we do not know. And if we are confronted with a unique legal problem, we seek out the best people to answer the question. And we do not charge for that. Its our responsibility to know the law.
This even happened to attorney El-Hag. When searching for a corporate tax lawyer, he was recommended to work with a high level tax law firm. When speaking to them, they did not know the answer to his legal questions, and they wanted him to pay $20,000 for them to do the research and make the recommendation. Clients do not go to lawyers and pay them to do research, the lawyer’s job is to develop the expertise as part of their craft and to charge for the service. And instead, for example, attorney El-Hag could pay a law librarian a fraction of the price to do the research, or to do it himself. The problem is, many lawyers engage in this type of client deception.
At El-Hag & Associates, we want you to understand how the legal game is played, and how you can be a victim. And we hope that it begins to build a trusting and long-term relationship for the rest of your life.
What makes a good lawyer?
I have spent my career asking what makes a good lawyer. It is a difficult question to answer because no matter what happens in a lawsuit, someone lives and someone loses. You can have the two most knowledgeable lawyers in a specific area with all the same experience and talent, one of them will lose a case at the end of the day.
Does the fact that the one lawyer lost, make that lawyer a bad lawyer? No. ALL of the lawyers who are recognized as the “best lawyers” or “Great lawyers” lose trials and cases. Why? They lose because the reality is that lawsuits are won based on many unknown variables. They are won or lost because one witness came across as more trustworthy than another, or because a juror related to one side more than the other. Jurors are deciding cases largely based on human instinct because it’s their job to render a judgment on someone’s trustworthiness. So, the lawyer’s skill is a minor component to your success.
So, what I have learned over the years is that a good lawyer is one with the right values. The way they are as a person is as important or more important as their legal skills. A lawyer who treats you with respect by being honest about the realities of the legal profession and practice, one who can tell you what you need to hear, someone who actually cares about you as a person.
I have seen too many lawyers practicing who did not have these core values. I wanted to build a firm that could be that trusted advisor to hard working individuals. At El-Hag & Associates, we make sure that all of our attorneys practice with these values, whether it’s a problem at work, a personal injury, an immigration matter, or any other legal matter you are confronted with, at resolve legal we are here for you.
How lawyers can take advantage of you
- They bill make the hours of work longer than it actually took them to do it. For example they will call you and over explain things in order to make the phone call longer.
- They use your case to test their legal skills or feed their ego, instead of putting your interests first. Knowing they should try to settle the case, they want to prove they are a good lawyer and tell you not to settle, and then bill you for the time or lose your case.
- They push to settle your case based on the firm needs. They need fast money so they tell you to settle for less and fast.
- They tell you they can win your case. No Lawyer can guarantee you success.
- They do not have the same lawyers working your case. They might have someone handle the trial that did not spend enough time working the case before trial.
- They tell you that they are a big firm when the size of a law firm is irrelevant to what you can recover. Every lawsuit is decided based on the facts of the case, not on the lawyer handling the case.
What you do not know about the legal system:
- Judges are bias. They say they aren’t, but they are humans. And there are judges who just want to get cases off their calendar and find any reason they can to throw your case out.
- Jurors are bias. Think about what happens when you get called to be a juror. Almost everyone tries to get out of jury duty. They do not want to be there, and they are going to make decisions based on their personal feelings and life experience.
- No one can predict the outcome of a lawsuit. If anyone says you are going to win, especially a lawyer, then they do not know what they are talking about.
- Your life is better off not being engaged in the legal system. The legal system is terrible. It’s slow and never ending. And its also
- Your recovery in lawsuits is directly tied to how hurt you are. You do not want a huge settlement because your life has been ruined. People who have won $100,000,00 lawsuits are most likely paralyzed for life, disfigured, or perhaps they died and the family is suing because someone they loved died. In almost every circumstance the people would rather not have the money, and get their life back the way it was.
- Lawyers are allowed to twist facts to make up stories about you to deceive the jury. They say the law is about finding the truth, but that is a lie. The defense lawyers job is to find any little thing they can to paint you in a bad light. They know its untrue what they are saying about you, but they are allowed to do it.