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Published on Saturday, October 04, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
The State Bar of California is warning lawyers they could face professional sanctions for initiating contact with victims of last month's deadly train collision.
In the weeks since a Metrolink commuter train plowed head-on into a freight train, killing 25 and injuring at least 130, attorneys have bought newspaper and television ads, solicited on the Internet and even tracked down the injured at hospitals. One law firm organized on Tuesday what it billed as a pair of town hall meetings to advise potential claimants in Simi Valley, in the heart of communities most affected by the collision.
Their actions prompted the bar's chief trial counsel, Scott J. Dexel, to issue the warning.
"Any unsolicited contact with a potential client either in person or by telephone (and perhaps even by mail) by an attorney or someone acting on his or her behalf is both illegal and unethical," he wrote in a letter
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