Referral services.

Is not paying a fee for a for-profit referral service the same as paying a fee to a non-attorney for referring a case to a lawyer, the latter being prohibited?

Lawyers who cannot get clients by other means gravitate to referral services. However, because The Florida Bar cannot regulate for-profit referral services, conflicts with advertising rules is a train wreck waiting to happen, despite the best efforts of the draftsmen of proposed Rule 4-7.22.

Richard N. Friedman

Miami

(Editor's Note: Rule 4-7.17(b) provides an exception from paying for referrals that allows a lawyer to pay normal charges of a lawyer...

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