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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Sep. 8, 2020

State Bar tells attorneys it is investigating their dealings with lawyer referral service it has just approved

The bar did not stop at the cease and desist letters. It started to notify attorneys in late July that it was investigating them for possible illegal fee-splitting in connection to their use of LegalMatch.

Even as it investigates attorneys for possible fee-splitting when they used the client-connection website LegalMatch, the State Bar approved the company's application to become a lawyer referral service effective Sept. 11.

Ellen A. Pansky of Pansky Markle Attorneys at Law represents attorneys who have received investigation letters from the bar.

"Responses have been submitted on behalf of the indivi...

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