Your local lawyer is NOT the person you should deal with.
There are a handful of lawyers who handle big lottery winning. Your local lawyer is not one of them.
At the very least contact a lawyer you can trust, and he can put you in contact with those kinds of lawyers. You have to have someone you can trust on your side.
How would the average person know who that would be?
The lawyer is more for initial, practical advice. They know what they don’t know—and get the referral fee for handing you off to the big guy.
Also, they will do some of the legwork about getting in touch with the lottery and researching things like taxes, trusts, and what not.
In the end, you need a dis-interested party to help you. You are going to be too emotional to do anything for a while.
Personally, I know some big money management people. They do big trusts. They would be getting called tomorrow.