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Not Just for Apartments and Used Guitars

Posted Jul 1, 2009, 08:40 pm CDT
By Ed Finkel

Possibly the largest classified advertising website, Craigslist provides a legal services section within each of its dozens of local sites. Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s getting plenty of use: On a single day in April, the Chicago site alone had more than 100 attorney ads posted with attention-grabbing headlines like “Low-Cost Bankruptcy” and “Don’t Let a Divorce Make You Go Broke—Free Consultation.”

Elk Grove, Calif., solo Jonathan Stein has been using the site for nearly three years, and he gets five to 10 inquiries per week. He estimates that 80 percent of those inquiries turn into clients.

“Consumers these days go to Craigslist for everything,” including lawyers, says Stein. “It does take a little while to figure out how to use… Continue reading...



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