Lawyer website confirmation page
A recent article in The Florida Bar News brought home the stark realities that lawyers in Florida must face if they want to continue to participate in the online and social media evolution. Websites are now considered to fall under the attorney advertising rules. In particular, attorneys' websites cannot state past results, case settlements, or other successes without first requiring the reader to acknowledge that s/he understands that these results may not necessarily be the same for every client.
While the ruling is certainly more restrictive in Florida than other states, we feel that all legal websites should consider varying degrees of access to content, depending on the nature of that content.
Our tech team at Stylo Creative Communications has come up with brilliant solution to accomodate these changes.
Our Solution
We have set a confirmation page, which we have briefly explained in the step-by-step procedure as follows:
Step 1: Users visit the page that contains the restricted information (requiring them to agree to certain terms and conditions prior reading the page content).
Step 2: The users will be given two options:
- Agree - The users will be required to type "agree" and click "Continue to read"
- I don't wish to continue
Step 3: If the users agree to the terms and conditions and wish to proceed, they will then be taken to the specified page in which the page content will be displayed. If the users do not wish to continue, they will be taken to a specified page e.g. Home page of the website.
View solution flow chart to the new lawyers' web complience
Why Do We Recommend This Solution?
We believe this is a perfect solution concerning the Lawyers' Web Compliance issues for several reasons. Firstly, it restricts the users from viewing the content directly. Instead, the users will be shown the terms and conditions that they have to agree upon, if they wish to continue.
Moreover, this method will ask the users to type "agree" (or other keywords if required) specifically, to avoid any unwanted occurrence which takes the users too easily into the restricted content. Finally, if the user does not wish to continue, we can redirect the user to a specified page.
May 26, 2010
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August 4, 2010
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