{"id":5965,"date":"2016-05-31T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:45:20","slug":"new-legal-referral-service-building-practices-benefitting-tals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/new-legal-referral-service-building-practices-benefitting-tals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Legal Referral Service (Building Practices &amp; Benefiting TALS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_574dada0c2bce9c90059723\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>Nonprofit Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS), which\u00a0supports the work of legal aid state wide, is starting a new referral service for recent grads and attorneys in solo and small firm practices called Law Search. Law Search Pro is a lawyer referral service that matches paying clients with local qualified lawyers. TALS will be in Memphis on June 8 for a coffee at the MBA from 8:30-9:30am, and at Bank <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Tennessee in Germantown for a lunch to tell interested lawyers how\u00a0this service can help them build their practice. It is a traditional referral service model where lawyers pay $200 annually to participate on subject matter rosters, and lawyers practicing less than 5 years pay $100 annually. When someone contacts TALS needing to hire an attorney, TALS screens them to triage their issue and make sure they are a good fit for the Law Search Pro service, then they are matched with a qualified local lawyer to meet with. If they can\u2019t afford to hire a lawyer, a TALS staff attorney provides free brief advice and refers them to other services where appropriate. The client pays TALS a $25 participation fee and gets up to 30 mins as a free consultation with the lawyer to decide if they want to hire that lawyer. The lawyer and client strike their own engagement agreement. Lawyers remit 15% of fees collected after the first $200. TALS will invest the proceeds from Law Search Pro into its free services for low income Tennesseans. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>For more information, attend the events described in the Flyer below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_5wpt\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/LAWSEARCHPRO-Flyer-SS-002.pdf\">LAWSEARCHPRO Flyer SS (002)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"_5wpt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_5wpt\">or contact:Ann Pruitt<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\nTennessee Alliance for Legal Services<br \/>\n615-294-4222<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofit Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS), which\u00a0supports the work of legal aid state wide, is starting a new referral service&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-services"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}