Often attorneys ask me to forward to them leads for people interested in participating in class actions. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time and money - time is money and it's hard enough for me to make ends meet and I can't volunteer for lawyers.
Since I just explained to someone about disposable e-mails, I thought I'd mention it right here since so many lawyers read the blog.
Any e-mail posted on the web will soon get lots of spam. When you have a domain, you can open unlimited e-mail accounts. It's a good idea to use a specific mail for public posting and once you get too much spam, you simply turn it off.
If someone is looking for plaintiffs for a class against a specific company, the e-mail address could be experian@lawfirm.com. Or you could have an address for all contacts with the public, such as info@lawfirm.com.
You can set up an auto responder to people who e-mail to that address with an update, specific instructions, new contact info or a note that you're no longer interested in pursuing the matter.
With most web hosts you can set up a new mailbox in a matter of a few minutes, well, once you know how. You can also set up a forwarder so the e-mail to that address goes to your regular mail or to another person in your company or check it separately.
While you can also use one of the free yahoo etc. mails, I would be reluctant to e-mail there, a law firm domain name seems a lot more reputable.
Hope that helps.
Posted by Christine at February 25, 2004 01:22 PM