Illinois Lawyer Finder makes over 700 referrals in April

The Illinois State Bar Association’s Lawyer Finder Service provides referrals to local lawyers Mondays through Fridays.  The Servicemakes referrals in a number of areas of law.  For the month of April, 2012 ISBA helped people in need of legal services find lawyers in the following areas:

• Administrative Law - 9
• Animal Law – 1
• Bankruptcy - 15
• Business Law - 15
• Civil Disputes - 54                  
• Civil Rights - 33
• Collection - 20
• Consumer Protection - 13
• Contracts - 13 
• Criminal Law - 71
• Education Law - 9                  
• Elder law - 6               
• Employment Law - 64
• Estate/Probate Law - 40
• Family - 136                           
• Government Benefits - 15
• Health Law - 12
• Immigration - 4           
• Insurance Disputes - 0
• Intellectual Property - 9
• Miscellaneous - 3        
• Municipal Law - 4                  
• Personal Injury - 83                
• Real Estate - 55           
• Social Security - 16                             
• Tax - 1
• Workers Compensation - 6

These numbers do not include additional referrals made through the on-line Lawyer Finder service.