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The Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association relinquished its Lawyer Referral Service to The Florida Bar on May 6, joining a growing number of local bar associations that have transferred referral operations to the statewide program.<\/p>\nFlorida Bar expands Lawyer Referral Service coverage in North Florida<\/p>\n
The Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association relinquished its Lawyer Referral Service to The Florida Bar on May 6, joining a growing number of local bar associations that have transferred referral operations to the statewide program.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the Jacksonville Bar Association \u2014 which serves Duval, Clay, Nassau, and Baker counties \u2014 transferred its Lawyer Referral Service to The Florida Bar.<\/p>\n
As of May 1, Escambia County had 891 eligible lawyers and Santa Rosa County had 172, according to Bar records.<\/p>\n
So far, this fiscal year, The Florida Bar\u2019s Lawyer Referral Service<\/a> has answered 72,711 calls \u2014 including 62,297 in English and 10,414 in Spanish \u2014 and made 60,540 referrals.<\/p>\n The statewide service is free for Bar members to join, although participating attorneys must carry at least $100,000 in professional liability insurance and provide proof during the application process.<\/p>\n Under the program, callers receive a 30-minute consultation for no more than $25. Intake staff in The Florida Bar\u2019s Tallahassee office collect basic information about the caller\u2019s legal issue and match prospective clients with panel members based on county and practice area.<\/p>\n The Lawyer Referral Service also maintains a \u201cmodest means\u201d panel. Attorneys who participate in that program agree to provide the initial 30-minute consultation at no cost and substantially reduce their fees for those who qualify.<\/p>\n Members located in The Florida Bar\u2019s LRS coverage area<\/a> who are interested in joining the Lawyer Referral Service may call 850-561-5616 or email [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Bar expands Lawyer Referral Service coverage in North Florida The Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association relinquished its Lawyer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-272006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}