State Bar & Bar Associations,
Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Oct. 14, 2020
Lawyers seek updated rules after bar drops probes into LegalMatch
The bar has stopped investigating attorneys who have used the client-connection website LegalMatch.
Lawyers are calling for an update to ethics rules after the State Bar dropped probes into possible ethics violations against attorneys who were investigated because they used the client-connection website LegalMatch.
The bar approved the company's application to become a lawyer referral service on Sept. 11 and attorneys started receiving "resource letters" around Oct. 7, according to Ellen A. Pansky of Pansky Markle Attorneys at Law...
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