I obtained a list of persons who filed divorce cases and PFAs and I send letters of solicitation asking the person to retain my legal services. Is there anything wrong with that?
Samuel C. Stretton.
Since 1987, lawyers have been allowed to send a directed letter to someone who needs legal services. This is memorialized in Rule of Professional Conduct 7.3(b). This rule arose out of a famous U.S. Supreme Court case that indicated there was a First Amendment right to such contact as long as it was not in person or a real-time electronic communication or telephone communication.
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