About
The best referral you ever got came from someone who knew you.
Attorneys have always referred work to each other. What they've never had is a way to do it beyond the reach of their own address book.
The alternative the market built was lead generation: buy a stranger's phone number, hope they answer, hope the matter is what the form said. That model serves the platform, not the client and not the profession.
AttorneyConnect exists to let the address book scale without losing what made it work, that you knew the person on the other end and that your name traveled with the case. Every member is a verified attorney, admitted and in good standing, reviewed by hand before they see anyone else in the network.
Members before volume
We would rather have a thin bench in a practice area than a member we wouldn't refer to ourselves.
Never the middleman
No cut of the fee, no ownership of the client relationship, no communications we sit between.
Confidential by construction
Membership is not marketing. Nothing about who belongs to this network is published.
The rules come first
Where a state's professional conduct rules and a convenient product decision conflict, the rules win.
Standards
Governed by the people who use it.
Vetting criteria, disputes over flagged matters and any decision to remove a member are reviewed by practicing members of the network rather than decided unilaterally.
Members may recuse themselves from any matter involving a colleague they know, and anyone whose standing is in question is heard before a decision is made.
Press, bar associations and partnership enquiries.
We answer every message from a bar association.