Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Feb. 28, 2020
California’s Rule 7.3 examined: texts and messaging as solicitations
Attorneys generally may not directly solicit potential clients to provide legal help. This prohibition is meant to alleviate the concern that an attorney’s skill and training could permit the attorney to unduly influence a person with less experience dealing with the legal system to retain the attorney.
Attorneys generally may not directly solicit potential clients to provide legal help. This prohibition is meant to alleviate the concern that an attorney’s skill and training could permit the attorney to unduly influence a person with less experience dealing with the legal system to retain the attorney.
In California, this has meant an attorney seeking for-profit work generally may not communicate the attorney’s availability to a po...
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