Adverts/Solicit Flashcards
Requirements for legal service comms
name of at least one lawyer; contact info
Firm name rules
Not misleading
Specialization claims:
A lawywer can state they are specialist if it is based on experience, training or education, and is not false
Certified specialist
the org must be ABA cert; and ad must clearly ID the org
Receiving gifts
Permitted as a token of appreciation, but not an exchagne for services.
Reciprocal referals w/ laywers and nonlaywers
the agreements must not be exclusive; not indefinite; and clients must be told of the arrangment.
Solitication person to person
BANNED is motive is money. this includes in person, phone, or video.
exceptions to the ban on soliticatation
reletatives; close friends; other laywers; and prior business relationships;