ABA Issues Formal Opinion on Lawyer Fee Financing

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On November 27, 2018, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued a formal ethics opinion on A Lawyer’s Obligations When Clients Use Companies or Brokers to Finance the …

Technology

Text A Lawyer: Uber for Lawyers?

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Like getting a ride via an app? How about getting a lawyer that way? Text A Lawyer hopes to be the Uber of legal service providers. Here’s how it works: …

Ethics Opinions

Yet Another State Condems Avvo Advisor Lawyer Referrals

On August 8, 2017, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics joined New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania and said “no” to Avvo Advisor, a pay-for-service lawyer …

Ethics Opinions

Participating in Avvo Advisor is Unethical

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Avvo Advisor is easy. A prospective client visits the website https://www.avvo.com/advisor, selects the legal services needed, pays Avvo a fixed fee, and Avvo arranges for an “experienced Louisiana lawyer” to return the prospective …

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