Ethics: Avoiding Prohibited Lawyer Solicitation | ABA

Ethics: Avoiding Prohibited Lawyer Solicitation | ABA

There’s probably no part of lawyering that has changed more in the last generation than advertising and marketing.

I was reminded of these changes by a recent, very helpful ABA ethics opinion on lawyer solicitation, as well as a 50-state review of the rules on solicitation I recently undertook for a client. The opinion provides very helpful reminders for us, plus it’s the ABA ethics committee’s first-ever treatment of ethics issues arising in the use of lead generators.

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