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PostSubject: Those transmission-belts of evil, lawyers, sending out text messages to try and get work   Those transmission-belts of evil, lawyers, sending out text messages to try and get work Icon_minitimeSun Sep 13, 2015 4:34 am
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - You’ve just been in a car accident or accused of a crime.
You’re confused and overwhelmed. You need help and don’t know where to turn.
Just at your most vulnerable moment, a lawyer steps forward and slips you his card. He’ll get money from the person who hit you. He’ll get the charges tossed, he assures you.
He just committed an ethical violation and could face discipline by the state bar. He’s not even allowed to call you on the telephone to suggest that you hire him.
But he can send you a text message, according to a recent decision by the Florida Bar.
In-person solicitations by attorneys are forbidden because, as the American Bar Association says, “The situation is fraught with the possibility of undue influence, intimidation, and over-reaching.”
In February, staff and a committee of the Florida Bar said the ban on in-person solicitations also bars text messages because the ban includes telephone communications.
But the Bar’s board of governors in July reversed that ruling, concluding that texts are more like emails, which are allowed, than phone calls.
“It’s an adaptation to reality,” said Bar President Ramon Abadin. “Most people communicate by mobile data devices that happen to be phones, too.”
The change, he added, is “part of the national dialogue. It’s what we should be doing as professionals. We should be looking at how best to serve our clients. What are the ways they want to be communicated with and what are the ways they don’t want to be communicated with? And what are the ways lawyers can best communicate with their clients?”
The issue arose when law firms asked the Bar if they could send texts seeking business.
The Orlando law firm that sent the second inquiry - the one that succeeded - sent a proposal describing how it planned to obtain information about criminal defendants from court records and send texts to the ones whose email addresses weren’t available.
“Criminal charges can change your life forever,” a sample message says. “You might feel scared and alone. The government accusing you has power; it has money; it has police; and it has many lawyers who will be working to convict and punish you. You should have a lawyer, too.”
The firm argued that text messages look virtually identical to emails on smartphones.
The firm provided census data that showed 90 percent of Florida adults have at least one mobile device, including phones, laptops and tablets. And 90 percent of them report using their devices for text messaging.
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