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Lawyer Divorce Solicitations

By Peter Olson

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There was an interesting thread recently on one of the list serves I frequent. It seems several lawyers on the list had recently been retained by clients to defend dissolution of marriage (divorce) actions and upon meeting with the new clients heard that the clients had gotten several lawyer solicitations/advertisements upon the dissolution case being filed. Interestingly, one of the lawyers had sent one of these advertisements to our friends over at ARDC and their opinion was that as long as the envelope and letter were clearly marked as advertisements then it's OK.

Is this too tacky? The family lawyer equivalent of "ambulance chasing"??

Maybe, but I don't find this as distasteful as actual ambulance chasing. Granted I've never been close to involved with PI work but putting two and two together I think some firms essentially find injured people or look for recent accidental deaths and solicit them for legal services. So something bad has happened and lawyers are sort of preying on people in the midst of a tragedy. But the "divorce solicitations" have come seemingly from a search of a court's records when a real case has been filed and that person likely should need someone to represent him/her.

I'm not rushing out to do this sort of thing but I'm not too offended by the behavior.

Full post as published by Solo In Chicago on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).