Good morning everyone. I’ve been working as personal injury paralegal for about 1 year. Our firm has an incentive where you get a portion of the fee’s for any-case you bring in. It is definitely something I’m interested in doing and I’m wondering what are someways that we can bring in businesses without breaking any ethical rules.

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If I’m understanding correctly, this is fee splitting which is not allowed between attorneys and paralegals.

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Technically fee sharing isn’t allowed but my previous firm did this too.

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