How to evaluate an online lawyer or content creator.

It is difficult for me to calculate the contempt that I have for 99% of the online lawyers (like YouTube lawyers) or content creators. They are predominantly liars and grifters with a bad background IMO.

The first thing you look for is law school and its USN&WR rank. You can also look at class rank and journal experience like law review.

The second thing you look for is work experience. This can be working at a big firm or perhaps being a prosecutor. As a subset of this, you can look for trial experience including "first chair" jury trials.

The third thing you look for is how long have they done their current job and how do they monetize it.