February 27, 2018
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NEW BRUNSWICK – A joint opinion from New Jersey Supreme Court committees that found Avvo's payment structure amounted to impermissible fee sharing was the only appropriate conclusion and should be affirmed, the association said in a recently filed friend-of-the-court brief. The matter involves an opinion issued this summer from the Court’s Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, Attorney Advertising and Unauthorized Practice of Law committees that found, in particular, that Avvo’s payment structure amounted to fee sharing and as such, New Jersey attorneys could not participate in those plans. A Washington D.C.-based Consumers for a Responsible Legal System, or Responsive Law, is seeking a reversal of that opinion, arguing that it restricts access to legal services, is anti-competitive and fails to recognize Avvo’s fee-sharing scheme as a permissible exception. Read the brief here.
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