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 July 2011 ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:

• Administrative Law - 5
• Animal Law - 4
• Bankruptcy - 16
• Business Law - 18                   
• Civil Disputes - 50                  
• Civil Rights - 29          
• Collection - 21
• Consumer Protection - 22
• Contracts – 8
• Criminal Law - 46
• Education Law - 3                  
• Elder law - 3
• Employment Law - 72
• Estate/Probate Law - 28
• Family - 151   
• Government Benefits - 21
• Health Law - 8
• Immigration - 4
• Insurance Disputes - 2
• Intellectual Property - 11
• Miscellaneous - 2        
• Municipal Law - 18                
• Personal Injury - 90                
• Real Estate - 63
• Social Security - 23                             
• Tax - 1
• Workers Compensation - 12

These numbers do not include additional referrals made through the online Lawyer Finder service.