Florida Rule 4-7.18 for Legal Practice

[jberryhill]

6. No. Florida is kind of unusual in the specifics

Florida residents don't pay income tax. A LOT of their revenue comes from various guest and resort fees.

In my state, the corresponding rule is:

(b) A lawyer may contact, or send a written communication to, the target of the solicitation for the purpose of obtaining professional employment unless:

(1) the lawyer knows or reasonably should know that the physical, emotional or mental state of the person is such that the person could not exercise reasonable judgment in employing a lawyer;

(2) the person has made known to the lawyer a desire not to receive communications from the lawyer; or

(3) the communication involves coercion, duress, or harassment.
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Under (1), it's a judgment call, and not 30 days. And we are talking about written communications, not chasing after people.

One of the criticisms of the Florida rule is that the prospective defendant's lawyers are NOT prohibited from communicating with you at all, so they have an entire month to get the first crack at you.

"Hi, this is Jim from Guest Services. We know this is a difficult time for you and we want to help you through this in any way we can. Jim would like to go over with you exactly what happened, so that we can better understand how we can best help you at this difficult time."