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 2015, ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:Here are the results for May 2015:870 phone referrals made by Lawyer Finder staffMost requested areas of law: Family (196), Personal Injury (103), Criminal Law (84), Employment Law (79), Civil Disputes (76), Real Estate (56) and Estate/Probate Law (36).20,322 visits to IllinoisLawyerFinder.com (18,127 unique visitors)Want to be part of the ISBA Lawyer Finder Service? Call (800) 252-8908 and ask for the Legal Department, or visit www.illinoislawyerfinder.comClients should call (800) 922-8757.

Lawyers who practice before administrative law agencies are not necessarily well-versed with procedures and their clients’ rights in cases before agencies such as the City of Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings. Don’t miss this program in Chicago or via live webcaston June 24, 2015 that reinforces best practices that attorneys should employ during a building code violation administrative hearing. Attorneys attending this seminar will increase their level of competency in dealing with a variety of issues that may arise in an administrative hearing and better understand: the administrative hearing process; the inspection process, including expectations during the inspection and post-inspection periods; how building code violations are prosecuted; how to properly represent clients at building code violation administrative hearings; and how to preserve the record and other post-judgment issues.The program is presented by the ISBA Administrative Law Section and qualifies for 1.75 hours MCLE credit, including 0.50 hour Professional Responsibility MCLE credit (subject to approval).Click here for more information and to register.

ISBA President Richard D. Felice and his wife, Marnell, took an ISBA group on a river cruise through Southern France April 24-May 2. ISBA group travel is a great way to enjoy travel and network with fellow attorneys. Find out about upcoming trips at tinyurl.com/ohrgyer.

Asked and AnsweredBy John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMCQ. Our firm is an 8 attorney general practice law firm located in Kansas City, Mo. Five of the attorneys are equity partners and the other three are associates. The two founding partners are the only ones in the firm that bring in clients - the other partners are just workers. Currently the partners are paid based upon their collections for cases/matters to which they are assigned. They are also credited for work that others do on their assigned matters as well. We are concerned that in a general practice firm such as ours, everyone must be bringing in clients and we are considering changing our compensation system to factor in credit for client origination. I would appreciate your thoughts.