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Attorney Criminal Defense Lawyer: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for criminal defense attorneys, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Attorney Criminal Defense

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Bail Bonds (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged
  2. Attorney Immigration (You send them work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged
  3. Private Investigator (You send them work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged
  4. Attorney Family Law (You send them work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged

The three rooms to be in

  1. Black chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: bail bond agents and immigration attorneys.
  2. Hispanic chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: bail bond agents and immigration attorneys.
  3. BNI: One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.

Don't confuse this with networking: State bar practice sections. Learning and supplier access, not referrals.

The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need criminal defense attorneys, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 Bail Bonds They send you work Trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged 81 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Attorney Immigration You send them work Trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged 46 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Private Investigator You send them work Trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged 45 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Attorney Family Law You send them work Trigger: somebody gets arrested or charged 37 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 Black chamber of commerce Your pick Your partners are in this room: bail bond agents and immigration attorneys. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Hispanic chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: bail bond agents and immigration attorneys. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  4. 4 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~7 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Network In Action One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Master Networks One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~7 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  7. 7 An independent local leads group One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · Under $500/yr · ~5 hrs/month · One seat per category
  8. 8 Bail Bonds's annual trade show A useful room for criminal defense attorneys, but not one where your top partners concentrate. Event or trade show · Annual · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month
The competitor trap

State bar practice sections

Most criminal defense attorneys join this room first. It is also the one most likely to be the wrong pick. Everyone in it does what you do. Join it for the training, the licenses, and the ties to manufacturers. Do not join it for referrals, and do not join it instead of the rooms above.

Let us be straight with you. For criminal defense attorneys, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

Your seat

Is your seat open?

Prime Time takes one Attorney Criminal Defense per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for criminal defense attorneys, and the next meeting dates for your area.

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