This page provides information about the Electronic Lawyer Referral Service (ELRS) of the Barristers Club of Delaware County, Pennsylvania in cooperation with the Delaware County Bar Association (DCBA).  

ELRS In General in Delaware County, PA

We approached the Delaware County Bar Association with a plan to implement our new ELRS as an extension of the then existing Lawyer Referral Service in use in Delaware County.  We also suggested the implementation of future Internet Applications. 

We continue to believe that large, national, third-party lawyer referral services are unable to sufficiently address the specific wants and needs of local lawyers and members of the community. We believe that the best resource for lawyer referral and CLE Seminars is your local bar association.  Thus, upon collaborating with the Delaware County Bar Association, this site was designed for use in Delaware County by Delaware County lawyers, residents, and business persons.

We expect to launch similar sites, designed to address the wants and needs of neighboring communities, upon collaboration with other bar associations.  We will connect these sites to this site and each other with our main site, barristersclub.com.

All members of the Delaware County Bar Association accessible via this ELRS are dedicated to excellence in the practice of law, and have embraced Barristers Club technology in order to provide you extraordinary service. They are licensed and insured professionals, and have agreed to respond to your feedback. 

ELRS Specifics

The following should answer any questions you may have about the ELRS. When you click on the Electronic Lawyer Referral Service button in the menu selection at the top, you will be taken to a page on a secured server and communication with you will from that point be encrypted until you leave the secured server that handles ELRS.
Regardless, it is suggested that you do not reveal information over the internet that you want to keep confidential. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the ELRS or the lawyer to whom you eventually will be referred, please contact us.

First, determine whether your question is "General" or "Specific".
General Questions
General Questions DO NOT concern real persons, places or events.  Our members believe in making the law accessible to all.  To that end, they will answer your "General Questions" free of charge.  If you want to know where to find the statutes, rules, or regulations governing your conduct, or if you want to know how or where to file a legal document, select the "General Question" radio button when the General/Specific choice is given you.  
Specific Questions
Specific Questions DO concern real persons, places, or events.  A lawyer MUST NOT learn facts about real persons, places, or events until the lawyer has determined that consulting with you does not create a conflict of interest.  Consulting with you about real persons, places, or events prior to checking for a conflict of interest may preclude the lawyer from representing you and/or other individuals. Before consulting with you, the lawyer to whom you will be referred must learn the identities of the parties and potential witnesses in order to check for a conflict of interest. Our lawyers will only consult with you, after determining that the consultation will not create a conflict of interest. If you want to consult about specific persons, places, or events, select the "Specific Question" radio button when the General/Specific choice is given you.

Next, you will be given the opportunity to limit the lawyer selection process, if you so desire, by indicating a particular area of the law and/or geographic location and at the same time you will be required to provide your own contact information. Your contact information and the name of the selected lawyer will be e-mailed to the Barristers Club for quality assurance purposes.

Finally, you will be given the opportunity to present either your "general question" or "specific data", as determined earlier, for the lawyer. The data you then provide will be forwarded by encrypted e-mail, unseen by the Barristers Club, to the lawyer.