The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays.  The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law.  For the month of May, 2010, ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:

• Administrative Law - 8
• Animal Law - 2
• Bankruptcy - 12
• Business Law - 12
• Civil Disputes - 56
• Civil Rights - 18
• Collection - 24
• Consumer Protection - 13
• Contracts - 11
• Criminal Law - 65
• Education Law - 23
• Elder law - 4
• Employment Law - 79
• Estate/Probate Law - 42
• Family - 150
• Government Benefits - 12
• Health Law - 3
• Immigration - 2
• Insurance Disputes - 6
• Intellectual Property - 2
• Miscellaneous - 1
• Municipal Law - 4
• Personal Injury - 70
• Real Estate - 45
• Social Security - 12
• Tax - 11
• Workers Compensation - 10

These numbers do not include additional referrals made through the online Lawyer Finder service. Want to be part of the ISBA Lawyer Finder Service?  Call 800.252-8908 and ask for the Legal Department, or visit www.illinoislawyerfinder.com Clients should call 800.922.8757.

The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays.  The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law. For the month of March, 2010 ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:

• Administrative Law - 9
• Animal Law - 1
• Bankruptcy - 15
• Business Law - 22
• Civil Disputes - 98
• Civil Rights - 26
• Collection - 18
• Consumer Protection - 17
• Contracts - 18
• Criminal Law -  95
• Education Law - 19
• Elder law - 3
• Employment Law - 79
• Estate/Probate Law - 22
• Family - 157
• Government Benefits - 23
• Health Law - 8
• Immigration - 6
• Insurance Disputes - 7
• Intellectual Property - 1
• Municipal Law - 4
• Personal Injury - 74
• Real Estate - 50
• Social Security - 19
• Tax - 6
• Workers Compensation - 5

These numbers do not include additional referrals made through the online Lawyer Finder service. Want to be part of the ISBA Lawyer Finder Service?  Call 800.252-8908 and ask for the Legal Department, or visit www.illinoislawyerfinder.com Clients should call 800.922.8757.

The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays. The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law. Several new categories have been recently added, including:

• Condominium law (under real estate)
• Eminent domain (add under real estate)
• Harassment (under civil/general)
• HIPAA (under health care)
• Mechanics Liens (add under collections)
• Mortgage foreclosures (add under real estate)
• Products liability (add under personal injury)
• Real Estate Tax assessments (under real estate)

And: Juvenile as a stand alone listing including subcategories:

• Juvenile/Criminal
• Juvenile/Civil
• Juvenile/Delinquency appeals

Military as a stand alone listing including subcategories:

• Military/Family law
• Military/Other civil issues
• Military/Criminal issues

If you are currently a member of the Illinois Lawyer Finder Service and would like to add any of these categories to your profile on the referral service, contact Mary Kinsley at mkinsley@isba.org. Illinois Lawyer Finder phone service made over 8,000 referrals in 2009.  View a statistical breakdown here. If you are not a member of the Illinois Lawyer Finder Service, join here.

The Illinois State Bar Association's Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays.  The Service makes referrals in a number of areas of law.  For the month of December, 2009, ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:

• Administrative Law                   6
• Animal Law                              1
• Bankruptcy                               13
• Business Law                           13
• Civil Disputes                           62
• Civil Rights                               12
• Collection                                  16
• Consumer Protection                 11
• Contracts                                  13
• Criminal Law                            52
• Education Law                          14
• Elder law                                  2
• Employment Law                      59
• Estate/Probate Law                   9
• Family                                      106
• Government Benefits                 11
• Health Law                               3
• Immigration                               5
• Insurance Disputes                    7
• Miscellaneous                           1
• Municipal Law                          8
• Personal Injury                          66
• Real Estate                               53
• Social Security                          12
• Tax                                          2
• Workers Compensation              7

These numbers do not include additional referrals made throug