The Future of Lawyer Referral Services

In the course of delivering a well-deserved bashing to obstructionist bar associations that don’t seem all that concerned about clients, My Shingle takes time to point out that a brighter future is on the way:
In time, however, I’m guessing that referral services and state bar listings will be rendered obsolete by the Internet and the web. More and more generations of potential clients are growing up using search engines like Google and reading weblogs. When these future clients go to search for lawyers, they’ll rely on those tools, and not the antiquated bar associations. So let the bars battle for the little piece of turf they have left. In another generation, this kind of debate will go the way of the rotary phone, the typewriter, the ditto machine, hard copy Shepards and other relics of legal practice.

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