Fla. bar asks high court to take a hard look at ads
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The Florida Bar has asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Florida Bar v. McHenry which struck down two Florida attorney advertising rules. The rules prohibited both accepting referrals from a legal referral service guilty of violating any ethics rule and direct-mail advertising to accident victims or their relatives within a month of an accident. The lower courts felt that these rules violated the commercial speech doctrine. Bar attorneys before the Supreme Court asked for greater latitude in legal advertising regulation.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Lawyers give more than $1M for 'coffee;' an NLJ look at which lawyers met with the president or slept at the White House
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A National Law Journal survey found that at least $1.2 mil of the money funding the Clinton-Gore re-election effort came from attorneys who were guests at White House election-year coffess. The coffees often collected individuals representing certain interests or whom certain policies would effect. Some ascribe an innocent motive to this, pointing out that Pres Clinton is a people person who just wanted to hear diverse views on a subject. Donations to the national political committees were important in the 1996 elections.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Ad decision could spur a rollback; bar leaders eye Fla. rule as a model on solicitation
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The US Supreme Court's affirmation of a Florida Bar rule prohibiting some solicitations by attorneys could lead to similar rules in other states and possibly on other professions. The court on June 21, 1995, overturned federal and appeals court decisions that a 30-day ban on direct-mail solicitations of accident victims was an unconstitutional violation of free-speech and other rights. The 5-4 decision also opens the way to other types of limits on advertising, sought in vain by state bars for the past 20 years.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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