Additional State-Specific Disclosures Pertaining to Attorney Advertising

Florida:

Florida Rule of Professional Conduct 4-7.10© defines a lawyer referral service as “(1) any person, group of persons, association, organization, or entity that receives a fee or charge for referring or causing the direct or indirect referral of a potential client to a lawyer drawn from any specific group or panel of lawyers; or (2) any group or pooled advertising program operated y any person, group of persons, association, organization, or entity wherein the legal services advertisements utilize a common telephone number and potential clients are then referred only to lawyers or law firms participating in the group or pooled advertising program.”  LexisNexis believes that for purposes of the Florida Rules of Professional Conduct only (the “Florida Rules”)the attorneys.com service  is likely a lawyer referral service as defined in the Florida Rules.  Rule 4-7.10(a)(10) requires that all lawyer referral services (as defined in the Florida Rules) must affirmatively state in all advertisements that it is a lawyer referral service. For those reasons, LexisNexis hereby affirmatively states, and for purposes of the Florida Rules only, that the attorneys.com service is a lawyer referral service and that the statement in Section 4 of the Attorneys.com Terms and Conditions to the effect are attorney advertisements is inapplicable in Florida.