{"id":3310,"date":"2021-06-03T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:38:20","slug":"new-ethical-rules-allow-referral-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/new-ethical-rules-allow-referral-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ethical Rules Allow Referral Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 1, 2021, changes to the ethical rules for attorneys in Arizona now allow lawyers to pay referral fees to anyone.\u00a0 Previously, Ethical Rule 5.4 prohibited a lawyer from sharing fees with a non-lawyer. In addition, Ethical Rule 7.2(b) prohibited giving \u201canything of value\u201d to anyone for recommending a lawyer\u2019s services or referring someone to a lawyer.\u00a0 Those two ethical rules have been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to delete these ethical rules prohibiting referral fees was made after research found that most clients don\u2019t care if a lawyer pays a fee to a referral source.\u00a0 It\u2019s something most of us are used to.\u00a0 Every time my pest exterminator comes to my house, he leaves me a note indicating that I will get a referral fee if I send another customer his way.\u00a0 In short, if the referral fee has no impact on the fees the client is paying a lawyer, most clients tend to have no objection to the payment of a referral fee.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, most of the other states in the U.S. had already removed the restrictions on paying referral fees.\u00a0 This change simply brought Arizona into line with the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers may still pay a <em>percentage <\/em>of the collected fees on a case to a lawyer who refers the case, but ethical rule 1.5(e) continues to require that the lawyer disclose the referral fee arrangement in writing (usually in the written fee agreement with the client) and that, by signing the written agreement, the client consents to the division of fees between the lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Scoresby Family Law \u2013 J. 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