Consumer Alert (again) Lawyer Directory AttorneysDelivered.com
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I previously talked about DUI1.com a "Find Your DUI lawyer" website that boasted about its qualified lawyers at the same time it was soliciting lawyers to "join the network" by telling them that they were qualified to handle DUI cases if they knew how to plead their clients guilty.
Today I got an unsolicited email from an outfit
www.attorneysdelivered.com.
To the consumer, they make the following claims at their website:
1. The attorneys on their site are "professionally screened."
2. If you find an attorney here, you've found a winner.
3.Our attorney directory specializes in providing you with lawyers and attorneys
that are winners. Inclusion is based on winnings. We understand that finding the
best isn't easy.
4.The best part is, you won't find the average joe lawyer here ... only the ones
you wan't defending you ... that will get you the settlement you
deserve and....
5. We save you the trouble of researching for a great attorney.
Inclusion is not based on payment but on an algorithm of success, winnings, and
reputation.
So, I decided to "apply" for a listing. I went through their sales process. Know what qualifications they asked for?
Name:
Address:
Credit Card!!
Now, maybe there's a criteria hidden somewhere... if so I didn't see it. I emailed the site owners about what the criteria was and they replied, vaguely, about having an "internal criteria" and "if you got our email you are qualified!"
Good answer, except that any attorney could apparently get listed by providing a credit card.
In most states, this site would violate the attorney advertising ethics rules. These ethics committees get real uncomfortable with anyone advertising (or allowing someone to advertise for them) that they are the best. If the state ethics committees investigated the 'criteria' that is apparently being used here, they would have a fit.
Look, ethical rules aside, attorneysdelivered.com may be doing some high end, quality screening. Maybe.
It wasn't obvious and they certainly didn't satisfy my curiousity with their response to my email.
Consumer need to take responsibility for choosing the right lawyer for their case. There's a ton of things you can do to protect yourself. I've actually written a book on the subject and its available at Amazon.com.