Lawyers and solicitation laws.

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Information About Legal Services
Rule 7.3 Solicitation of Clients
(a) A lawyer shall not by in-person, live telephone or real-time electronic contact solicit professional employment when a significant motive for the lawyer's doing so is the lawyer's pecuniary gain, unless the person contacted:

(1) is a lawyer; or

(2) has a family, close personal, or prior professional relationship with the lawyer.

(b) A lawyer shall not solicit professional employment by written, recorded or electronic communication or by in-person, telephone or real-time electronic contact even when not otherwise prohibited by paragraph (a), if:

(1) the target of the solicitation has made known to the lawyer a desire not to be solicited by the lawyer; or

(2) the solicitation involves coercion, duress or harassment.

(c) Every written, recorded or electronic communication from a lawyer soliciting professional employment from anyone known to be in need of legal services in a particular matter shall include the words "Advertising Material" on the outside envelope, if any, and at the beginning and ending of any recorded or electronic communication, unless the recipient of the communication is a person specified in paragraphs (a)(1) or (a)(2).

(d) Notwithstanding the prohibitions in paragraph (a), a lawyer may participate with a prepaid or group legal service plan operated by an organization not owned or directed by the lawyer that uses in-person or telephone contact to solicit memberships or subscriptions for the plan from persons who are not known to need legal services in a particular matter covered by the plan.

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ABA Rule 7.3 Direct Contact with Prospective Client

Ole Jimmy is slick

you mean explain the difference between advertisement and unethical solicitation?

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But print ads, billboards and tv commercial solicitation is fine.

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They're not directly contacting the desired client. Solicitation is a very direct, intentional "advertising" such as going door-to-door or cold calling the phone book.

I have brochures made only to send to my friends just to mess with them.

They don't do it now but years back I was in a minor traffic accident and I received dozens of solicitation letters from local ambulance chasers. I loved the ones that came with a doctors appointment already scheduled for me with their partner quack.

You mean Slipping Jimmy

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but insurance companies can't put out ads explaining that "check with me" has a percentage attached.

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Can they not?

and apparently you've never heard of LABI and other industry trade groups.

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Lawyers are slimy pieces of shite

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Tried to represent yourself and ex stroked you to the bank, eh?

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I anxiously await Slowseph's response.

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i have to wach my tongue, but lawyers are regulated unlike almost any industry in terms of what we can do to promote our services

general terms: you aren't supposed to DIRECTLY solicit from people you have no past with. if you have a previous history, if you hear they get run over or arrested, you can call them immediately. you can advertise, but you have to follow strict rules and send the ads in for review

and today i was stuck watching CNN/NBC locally for hours during lunch time and HOLY frickING shite half the tv ads were pi lawyers