Injured or facing a criminal matter in Georgia: first steps to organize
Injury matters and criminal matters follow different paths. These two short lists cover paperwork to organize and where the official Georgia records are. They are not legal advice and do not describe legal rights or deadlines.
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After a Georgia injury
- If you need medical care, get it. This page is about paperwork, not health decisions.
- Write down the agency that responded and any report number you were given.
- Keep insurance letters, claim numbers, medical bills and receipts together in one folder.
- Keep any photos you took, with the date they were taken.
- Keep personal identifiers and the report itself off social media.
Facing a Georgia criminal matter
- Keep every piece of paperwork: citation, bond paperwork, court notices.
- Note the court name, county and next date shown on that paperwork.
- Confirm a court date with the clerk of the court named on the paperwork.
- Keep the facts of the matter off social media. This site never asks for them.
- If a lawyer already represents you, take questions to that lawyer.
Checking whether someone is a Georgia lawyer
The State Bar of Georgia publishes a member directory. Anyone can use it to check a person's State Bar of Georgia membership before speaking with them about a Georgia matter. A lawyer licensed in another state is not, by that fact alone, licensed in Georgia.
Georgia requests are not open yet
You can look through the five request steps. Nothing you enter is sent, saved or seen by a lawyer, and no lawyer is currently available through this site.
Georgia requests are not open yet. The preview shows the five steps; nothing you enter is sent or saved. Not a law firm.