It may appear to be a good time to begin marketing legal services to same-sex couples in Pennsylvania given the overturning of the state’s ban on gay marriage, but lawyers who have long represented the community warn firms not to just stick “LGBT” in front of their practice and hope for work.
Representing the LGBT community, often in some of the most personal areas a lawyer can handle, such as family law, requires not only legal expertise but a sensitivity to the LGBT community’s needs and concerns, those attorneys said.
