How do you find good attorneys? Are they all bad?

[Orlando Goodon]

This is my first time dealing with multifamily rentals and every attorney I've come across seems dishonest and lazy. I've been struggling to find a good attorney for weeks now. I'm now starting to think:

-I'll need to accept hiring a bad attorney who is not as bad as others (lesser of two evils)
-I'll have to do much of the work myself (reviewing laws and finding exceptions that can help with evicting non paying tenants protected by ERAP)
-The main job of the attorney will be filing the paperwork, showing up in court, answering my questions and finding flaws in strategies that I come up with
-They all want to do the laziest thing. The most basic strategies like the last one who was doing a non payment eviction on tentents programs that specifically block you from doing so, rather than using things that are not blocked by the programs (owner occupy)

So how have you found good legal help? You can't even trust referrals because people refer people they LIKE, not necessary people who are good. If I hire a lawyer and they are NICE and friendly and SEEM knowledgeable, I'll probably recommend them. Problem is, if you are not an attorney, how do you know your attorney did a good job? Lazy attorney CAN win cases or SEEM to be doing good work. I think, only another attorney that you TRUST is capable of doing a worthwhile referral.unless you can find an attorney who handled your exact situation before and was successful.

For refence, I just need to do an owner occupy (primary residence) eviction on ERAP tenants in NY house I just bought. ERAP supposedly does not apply to 4 units or less and won't stop owner occupy...supposedly...but I need a good attorney to be sure.

Thanks in advance.