Committee on Professional Ethics
Explains: Opinion No. 779 (2004)
Topic: Advertising and solicitation; internet website directory
Digest of the Committee:
“Lawyer may not participate in website that charges lawyer a fee to provide information about potential clients whom lawyer will then contact, where the website purports to analyze the prospective client’s problem and selects which of its subscribing lawyers should respond, nor may the lawyer contact the prospective client by telephone unless the prospective client has expressly requested a telephone contact.”
Code (opinion issued prior to adoption of current rules): DR 1-102(A), DR 2-101(A), (K), DR 2-103(A), (B), (D), DR 3-101(A)
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