Spammed Lawyers Angered Over Fla. Bar’s Sale of E-Mail Addresses
Lawyers are complaining about the Florida Bar’s sale of their e-mail addresses to third parties who have flooded their in-boxes with unwanted marketing posts.
The state bar charges $8,500 for a DVD with lawyer contact information and makes about $200,000 a year on the sales, according to the Daily Business Review. The bar says it is a public agency that is obligated to provide the contact information.
But a handful lawyers at a recent committee meeting of the state bar fumed about the practice, according to the article. One of the critics is Ury Fischer, who has written the state bar to voice his objections.
“I believe that there are very simple and inexpensive ways for the bar to meet its public records obligations without exposing its members to spam abuse,” the letter says.
