Newbie needs to contact attorney

[William M.]

This is my first time posting and I am a complete newbie. I have been learning as much as I can and feel I need to now take some action. I feel my first step is to contact an attorney to find out what is legal in New York and acquire the appropriate legal forms needed to begin to wholesale properties. I want to try and get a property under contract with the ability to assign the contract to another buyer for a fee but also have a good exit clause in case I can not find a buyer. My question is how should I go about finding an attorney to help me with this? I do not have a REI Club locally. Should I contact a closing attorney or a real estate attorney? Do I just call them up and ask how much it will cost to get some advice and maybe some legal documents drawn up? I feel like when I tell them what I want to do they are gonna laugh and tell me I have fallen for some get rich quick scam rather that work with me.