united-states lawyer
Do Mafia lawyers exist?
<p>Do mob lawyers still exist? Can someone just call them and hire them for whatever job?</p>

<p>I mean... What if I end up in a serious situation and want the best lawyer (or assemble the lawyer army) for it? Logically such people must be the top notch people. After all they worked for the hardest most serious cases in the US.</p>

<p>Certianly people have been accused of Mafia-related crime, and have been defended by lawyers. If there are lawyers who make representing Mafia-related people a sizable part of their business (and I suspect that there are), they do not advertise this fact. So it is hard to know who such lawyers might be. </p>

<p>Such lawyers, if they exist, probably have specialized expertise in the problems and needs of such clients.  But that might not be particularly helpful to a non-Mafia person who needs a lawyer. </p>

<p>As far as I know the Cosa Nostra doesn't have an accreditation for lawyers. They have various organizational ranks, but none of these are related to the law. </p>

<p>Also, in Italy at least, they usually go extra-judicial when sorting out judicial issues, like bribing judges, threatening prosecutors and their families etc., which tends to be more effective that going through the legal process.</p>
