EAGLE businesses’ financial contributions support the Florida Justice Association’s continuing legislative, political and educational efforts to preserve consumers’ rights and Florida’s civil justice system. EAGLE businesses set the standard for consumer support, leading the way to corporate reform and greater corporate accountability. EAGLE business leaders understand that profits are protected only when products are safe and protecting Florida consumers is good business.
Below are businesses that have chosen to step forward and stand beside FJA and other consumer advocates as we strive to protect Florida’s citizens from dangerous special interest legislation. Please visit EAGLE Business Friends listed here for all of your trial service needs. Thank you for supporting those that support FJA.
EAGLE businesses receive automatic membership in Florida Justice PAC and are recognized in FJA publications and bulletins, so members across the state know exactly which businesses have joined FJA in our fight to preserve the civil justice system.
Client Legal Funding
Contact: Jennifer Arend
Email: jennifer@clientlegalfunding.com
Website: www.clientlegalfunding.com
Address: 628 Bypass Dr. | Clearwater, FL 33764
Phone: (727) 614-9926
Client Legal Funding is a national funding company providing millions of dollars in litigation funding for plaintiffs and attorneys. We have over 30 years of experience in working in the legal and financial industries. We are Owned and operated by trail lawyers.so we completely understand the personal injury industry. The knowledge and experience we have collected over the years has allowed us to build great relationships with attorneys & their clients alike. We strive to be the best in the industry by being understanding and flexible.
NeuLife
Contact: Tera Welch
Email: tera@neuliferehab.com
Website: www.neuliferehab.com
Address: 2725 Robie Avenue | Mount Dora, Florida 32757
Phone: (352) 720-3260
NeuLife Rehabilitation is one of the largest residential post-acute rehabilitation programs specializing in rehabilitation for a wide range of catastrophic injuries. We are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in Brain Injury Specialty Programs and Residential Rehabilitation.
NFP Structured Settlements
Contact: Paula Rubinstein
Email: paula.rubenstein@nfp.com
Website: www.nfpstructures.com
Address: 150 East Palmetto Park Road, Suite 525 | Boca Raton, FL 33432
Phone: (561) 231-5255
NFP Structured Settlements is a leader in the structured settlement industry offering comprehensive, value-added services to both insurers and injured persons. Our dedicated and experienced claims, legal and settlement professionals strive to help injured parties maximize their benefits, as well as to assist all parties in an effort to settle cases effectively and efficiently. It is our overriding goal to achieve the best possible settlement for everyone involved in a personal injury case by obtaining the most competitive annuity pricing to fund a secure, tax-free stream of future payments.
Universal Court Reporting
Contact: John McLendon
Email: jmclendon@universalcourtreporting.com
Website: www.ucrinc.com
Address: 888 East Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 508 | Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Phone: (954) 712-2600
Universal Court Reporting is a national court reporting company that provides court reporting, information technology and videography. Our cutting edge technology enables us to provide complimentary video for court reporting and complimentary video transcript synchronization. It is our mission to extend comprehensive assistance that caters to every manner of legal proceedings
USClaims
Contact: Donna Lee Jones, Esq.
Email: dljones@usclaims.com
Website: http://www.usclaims.com
Address: 1221 N Church St #103 | Moorestown, NJ 08057
Phone: (877) 872-5246
USClaims specializes in assisting personal injury victims with mature claims and confirmed insurance. Financial support is provided up front at some of the lowest rates in the industry and with no risk – no recovery means no repayment.
Ethos Health Group
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Walker
Email: drwalker@flspineandinjury.com
Website: www.ethoshealthgroup.com
Address: 2755 N. Wickham Road, Suite 102 Melbourne, Florida 32935
Phone: (866) 457-3443
Ethos Health Group is a multi-specialty clinic focusing on personal injury with an emphasis traumatic brain injury. In addition to PI, we also have knee pain and neuropathy programs with 24 locations throughout Florida.
Locations: Ocala, Gainesville, Lake City, The Villages, Daytona, Melbourne, Tampa, Lakeland, Brandon, St. Pete, Palm Harbor, Sarasota, Sun City Center, Downtown Orlando, Winter Park, Ocoee, Clermont, Kissimmee, Jacksonville Ortega/Westside, Jacksonville Northside, Jacksonville Lakewood/San Jose, Jacksonville Arlington, Jacksonville Beach, and West Palm
iBERIA/Sabadell Bank
Contact: Dwight Hill
Email: Dwight.Hill@iberiabank.com
Website: www.iberiabank.com
Address: 30th Floor, 1111 Brickell Avenue | Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 358-4334
Iberia Bank, headquartered in Miami, Florida, is a locally-managed, nationally-chartered banking institution. The bank has 23 locations throughout the state, serving over 35,000 clients, and is the sixth largest bank in Florida by deposits. Bauer Financial Reports recognized the financial strength of the bank by awarding it a five-star rating, the highest available. Iberia Bank is recognized as the trusted financial advisor for professionals and businesses as well as domestic and international high-net-worth individuals.
Momentum Funding
Contact: Chanda Thompson
Email: CThompson@momentumfunding.com
Website: www.momentumfunding.com
Address: 6001 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, Suite 150 | Boca Raton FL 33487
Phone: (561) 886-4570
Momentum Funding LLC is a premier national legal and medical finance company headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. The Momentum Funding team is led by personal injury lawyers with more than 50 years of combined experience. Momentum Funding offers: * Competitively priced non-recourse plaintiff funding. * Medical funding with cash prices for surgeries, deductibles and health insurance. * Transportation services to transport clients to medical and court appointments. Let us help move your cases forward.
Sage Settlement Consulting
Contact: John M. (Jay) Scarola
Email: jscarola@sagesettlements.com
Website: www.sagesettlements.com
Address: 609 Orange Avenue Unit 3 | Jupiter, FL 33458
Phone: (561) 629-4992
Litify
Contact: Terry Dohrmann
Email: terry@litify.com
Website: www.litify.com
Address: 850 3rd. Ave. Suite 402 Brooklyn, NY 11232
Phone: (917) 576-9788
Litify is the practice management platform designed to work the way you do. Our legal technology software combines case management, marketing, analytics, and more into the most powerful practice management platform designed to make every type of law firm as streamlined and efficient as possible.
Physician Life Care Planning
Contact: Jacob Gonzalez
Email: jacobg@physicianlcp.com
Website: www.physicianlcp.com
Address: 11550 1H-10 W, Suite 375, San Antonio, TX 78230
Phone: (210) 501-0995
Physician Life Care Planning is the world’s highest quality provider of damages valuation services. We are physician life care planners in a field in which less than 1% of life care planners are qualified physicians. As practicing MDs who specialize in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, we possess the requisite capacity to independently formulate and defend recommendations for ongoing medical care. In addition to life care planning, our client benefit from accessing an entire range of related valuation services, all from a single source. We are the nation’s leading team of physician life care planners, vocational capacity specialists, forensic economists, medical illustrators, and neurophysiologists.
Robson Forensic
Contact: Courtney Tarsa
Email: eeckhardt@robsonforensic.com
Website: www.robsonforensic.com
Address: 2925 PGA Blvd, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33469
Phone: (561) 626-5771
Robson Forensic is a national leader in expert witness consulting, providing technical expertise across many fields within engineering, architecture, science, and a broad range of specialty disciplines. With offices in Miami and Palm Beach Gardens, we offer FJA members local access to exceptionally qualified experts and state of the art forensic resources.
Visual Evidence
Contact: Cathy Downey
Email: cdowney@visualevidence.com
Website: www.visualevidence.com
Address: 601 North Dixie Hwy., Suite A, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Phone: (561) 655-2855
Visual Evidence has been a national leader in presentation support for over 30 years. We continue to assist the members and leaders of the Florida Justice Association and the American Association for Justice in achieving favorable resolution for their clients from discovery through mediation and in trial. All services are available nationally.
– Video Depositions – Day in the Life & Settlement Documentaries
– Hot Seat Operators – Digital Presentation at Mediation and Trial
– Videoconferencing – Drone Photography & Videography
– Exhibit Boards – Graphics & Animation
– Live Streaming – Site, Product, and Vehicle Inspections
Arcadia Structured Settlements
Contact: Nathan Evans
Email: nevans@teamarcadia.com
Website: www.teamarcadia.com
Address: 5613 DTC Parkway, Ste. 700 Greenwood Village | Colorado 80111
Phone: (904) 864-3600
At Arcadia, we help resolve conflicts, reduce litigation expenses and create long-term financial security for people involved in personal injury claims through our settlement consulting services.
Felipe Blanco - RBC Wealth Management
Contact: Felipe S. Blanco
Email: felipe.blanco@rbc.com
Address: 8840 S.W. 136th Street | Miami, FL 33176
Phone: (305) 252-5673
Whatever your personal goals may be, I will work with you to develop a customized financial strategy designed to help you pursue what’s most important to you.
Global Litigation Consultants
Contact: Leo Govoni
Email: LJG@glc-team.com
Website: www.globallitigationconsultants.com
Address: 4912 Creekside Drive | Clearwater, FL 33760
Phone: (877) 766-5331
We believe every step of the litigation lifespan should be streamlined to increase law firm efficiency, reduce liability and costs, and therefore increase firm profits. If you are like many attorneys, you may struggle to stay on top of your caseload. This may lead you to question whether your law firm is operating as efficiently as possible. With three decades of experience, Global Litigation Consultants can provide you with an efficient back-office solution that matches the administrative support of large law firms without the large price tag.
Image Resources, Inc.
Contact: Rob Fulton
Email: tampa@i-r.com
Website: www.i-r.com
Address: P.O. Box 20884 | Saint Petersburg, FL 33742
Phone: (813) 618-3108
Image Resources can enhance the value of any case at mediation. Our videos are unique: 1) Influenced over $1 Billion in recoveries; 2) Emmy award-winning quality; 3) 21 years of experience 4) Split-Screen video depositions in HD. Persuade the carrier with our settlement documentaries. Engage your jury with our depositions, DITL videos, equipment inspections, and DMEs. Generate leads with our web videos. Everything we produce is offered in High Definition. We know your world.
Preferred Capital Funding
Contact: Jason Porter
Email: jason@pcfcash.com
Website: www.preferredcapitalfunding.com
Address: 211 N. Broadway, Suite 110 | St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: (800) 774-7106
Preferred Capital Funding is among the leading providers of funding options for injury or workers’ compensation lawsuits. When a plaintiff is going through a lawsuit, he or she still needs money to pay the bills. We provide funding anywhere from $500 to $500,000—all depending on what you need and the nature of your case.
Priority Responsible Funding
Contact: Brett Findler, Arlene Dill, Brenda Findler
Email: info@priorityresponsiblefunding.com
Website: www.priorityresponsiblefunding.com
Address: 301 East Yamato Road, Suite 3190, Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: 1 (855) FUNDS-4-ME or 1 (855) 386-3746
Our business model has been designed specifically to alleviate the many pitfalls of legal funding! We offer prompt and professional service, with an open line of communication with the President and Founder Brett K. Findler, an accomplished 35 year Florida Trial Attorney. We make it our focus to assist lawyers nationally in their quest to achieve the best possible outcome for their injured clients. The opportunity for Priority Responsible Funding to contribute 10% of every successful recovery back to the FJA Eagle is a benefit to ALL who stand for civil justice! In addition to non-recourse pre and post settlement funding, we offer innovative non-recourse Litigation, Medical/Surgical/Dental and Catastrophic funding. Less paperwork, lower rates and prompt turn around! Our team will go the extra mile for you and your clients!
Synergy Settlement Services
Contact: Marci Gordon
Email: marci@synergysettlements.com
Website: www.synergysettlements.com
Address: 911 Outer Road | Orlando, FL 32814
Phone: (407) 708-9001
Synergy Settlement Services is the first nationwide, plaintiff only, integrated settlement services group. We leverage the power of a multi-dimensional approach to comprehensively address the complexities that arise at settlement such as lien resolution, Medicare set-asides/msp compliance, pooled special needs trusts, settlement planning/structured settlements, public benefit preservation, attorney fee deferrals, mass tort lien resolution and asset management services.
Video Law Services
Contact: Michaela Miller
Email: michaela@videolawservices.com
Website: www.videolawservices.com
Address: 1621 Emerson Street, Jacksonville, FL 32207
Phone: (904) 399-8825
Emmy Award winning team produces Settlement Documentaries and Day in the Life videos for mediation and trial. 100% admissibility – 30+ years producing results!
5 Star Legal Funding, LLC
Contact: Chriss Mollica
Email: cmollica@5starlegalfunding.com
Website: www.5starlegalfunding.com
Address: 7777 Glades Road | Boca Raton, FL 33434
Phone: (561) 599-4000
5 Star’s Mission is to provide the best service to its attorneys, as well as offering and delivering the best product to injured clients. If we achieved these objectives, we would become the premier non-recourse advance company in the country. We execute our plan by offering the best posted non-compounding rates in the industry; capped advance payoffs; and surgical funding, when insurance is not available to the injured, at the same low rates.
Black Diamond Funding
Contact: Milagros Varela
Email: milagros@blackdiamondfunding.com
Website: www.blackdiamondfunding.com
Address: 4780 SW 64th Ave. | Davie, FL 33314
Phone: (844) 352-2274
At Black Diamond Funding Ventures, LLC we strive to build long-lasting relationships with the Law Firms we work with. We believe in working closely with the plaintiff and their attorney to ensure the victim of a personal injury case has the proper funding source to meet their immediate financial needs until their claim is resolved. Our clients benefit from fixed, flat rates and no processing, underwriting, origination or maintenance fees. We believe in being transparent and responsible to the Law Firm and their clients avoiding confusing contracts. Black Diamond Funding helps attorneys keep their cases moving and their clients’ finances on track.
BiFulco Medical Group
Contact: Dr. Santo Steven BiFulco
Email: drbifulco@bifulcomedicalgroup.com
Website: www.bifulcomedicalgroup.com
Address: Suite 107 1502 West Fletcher Ave. | Tampa, FL 33617
Phone: (813) 321-3676
Dr. Santo BiFulco has practiced medicine for over 26 years, and currently helps the injured, the suffering, plaintiff and defense attorneys in their journey to justice.
Fast Funds
Contact: Bruce Braxton
Email: bruce@fastfunds4u.com
Website: www.fastfundsforyou.com
Address: 9703 South Dixie Hwy | Pinecrest FL 33156
Phone: (305) 740-0603
Fast Funds is Florida’s Funding Company providing financial assistance for clients since 1998. Our lawsuit cash advance program is the simplest and fairest in the non-recourse funding industry. Fast Funds does not charge compounded or simple interest on the amount advanced, no matter how long it takes for the case to resolve. Structured similar to an attorney’s contingency fee agreement, our profit is based on a small percentage of the anticipated proceeds of recovery, and does not increase due to the amount of time it takes to bring your client’s case to final resolution. Fast Funds has No application fee, No up-front charges, and No closing costs. Our program is non-recourse, so if your client loses their case, they keep the advance and owe us nothing. Fast Funds promises to never over fund or become the obstacle to settling your client’s case. We offer both lump sum and monthly allowance payments to insure your client is financially stable during the time you’re working on their claim providing the amount of time necessary to maximize their recovery.
LRG Settlement Advisors
Contact: Randy Gassman
Email: rgassman@lrgsa.com
Website: www.lrgsa.com
Phone: (800) 815-8215
LRG Settlement Advisors began with the simple idea that plaintiffs and their attorneys should have one place they can go to obtain assistance with many parts of the settlement process. This includes Medicare and Medicaid lien resolution, MSA reports and minimization strategies, health benefit protection planning and most importantly providing financial security through structured annuities.
MediVisuals, Inc.
Contact: Leah Shepherd
Email: lshepherd@medivisuals.com
Website: www.medivisuals.com/florida-clients
Address: 2008 Libbie Avenue, Suite 200 | Richmond, VA 23226
Phone: (800) 899-2153
MediVisuals provides the highest level of worry-free service available, including superior case consultation and the development of accurate, cost-effective visual solutions for all your litigation needs. MediVisuals’ primary service is the conceptualization and development of visuals that make medical and technical expert testimony more understandable and memorable, contributing to just resolution of litigation. The company has more than 30 years of experience working with some of the nation’s leading M.D.s , Ph.D.s, attorneys, and trial consultants. MediVisuals’ end products include truthful, understandable, and persuasive illustrations, animations, 3D digital models, 3D physical models, and interactive digital presentation.
Quality Forensics
Contact: Iola Goeke
Email: igoeke@qforensics.com
Website: www.qforensics.com
Address: 2341 Hansen Court | Tallahassee, FL 32301
Phone: (850) 583-5540
Quality Forensic Engineering, LLC is a full-service forensic engineering and accident reconstruction firm, providing engineering support to clients in the areas of collision reconstruction, premises liability, and product liability. With over 20 years of experience for each of our senior engineers, we utilize the latest technology for documenting evidence and retrieving data including FARO 3D scanning, aerial drone imaging, and black box downloads.
T-Scan Corporation
Contact: Jay Jenkins
Email: jay@tscan.biz
Website: www.tscan.biz
Address: 4200 23rd Avenue West Suite 200 | Seattle, WA 98199
Phone: (206) 829-2122
We provide the full range of services required for your records.
Veritext Legal Solutions
Contact: Ana Gaucin
Email: agaucin@veritext.com
Website: www.veritext.com
Address: Suite 902 One East Broward Boulevard | Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
Phone: (786) 477-5012
Veritext is the leading court reporting agency in deposition and litigation support solutions. For law firms and corporations, we provide national coverage, state-of-the-art facilities, highly skilled court reporters, advanced technology, unparalleled client service, and on-time delivery. Our litigation support solutions utilize the latest easy-to-use technologies that streamline the deposition process, enhance delivery flexibility, and reliably handle the most complex cases. Proprietary legal video, mobile and remote services combined with unmatched security, including HIPAA and PII compliance, ensure that Veritext clients have the best tools available and the confidence of working with the market leader.
BioSpine Institute
Contact: Michael Moore
Email: michael@biospine.com
Website: biospine.com
Address: 4211 West Boy Scout Boulevard Suite 400 | Tampa, FL 33607
Phone: (813) 443-2108
CaseMetrix
Contact: Kim White
Email: kim.white@case-metrix.com
Website: www.case-metrix.com
Address: 100 Peachtree St., NW, Suite 2150 | Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: (404) 849-6422
CaseMetrix is a network of attorneys throughout the southeast reporting real-time settlements & verdicts into a searchable database. Attorneys utilize the data to aggressively negotiate with insurers & defense counsel, as they’re seeing exactly how insurers are valuing similar cases while managing their own clients’ expectations.
CSC Medical Solutions
Contact: Robert Shuttera
Email: robert@cscmedicalsolutions.com
Website: www.cscmedicalsolutions.com
Address: 628 Bypass Drive | Clearwater, FL 33764
Phone: (727) 240-1038
Forensic Human Factors, LLC
Contact: Kevin Rider
Email: krider@fhfexperts.com
Website: www.forensichumanfactors.net
Address: 100 E. Campus View Blvd, Suite 250 | Columbus, OH 43235
Phone: (734) 864-2973
We strive to offer comprehensive human factors and engineering analysis. Attorneys and their clients are best served by experts who can investigate and explain complex concepts in ways that a jury can comprehend. Our experience working with people of all ages provides a framework by which our testimony allows the jury to readily understand the essential elements of the expert’s analysis, and thus appreciate the expert’s ultimate opinions.
Global Engineering Scientific Solutions
Contact: Ceara Goodnow
Email: cgoodnow@gess1.com
Website: www.gess1.com
Address: 3121 Fairlane Farms, Suite #1 | Wellington, FL 33414
Phone: (850) 942-5300
GESS and its highly experienced teams lead by Dr. Farhad Booeshaghi (Dr. B), who is nationally known and has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the field is well recognized as one of the top leaders in the field of forensic engineering, accident reconstruction, and biomechanics of injury causation. GESS has a strong proven track record for assisting in the scientific analysis of a plethora of accidents which include but are not limited to evaluations of contentions and counter-contentions in product liability, premises liability, and vehicular accidents with focus on accident reconstruction, collision dynamics, occupant kinematics, human factors engineering and biomechanics of injury causation.
Huseby Global Litigation
Contact: Ana Carooll
Email: anacarroll@huseby.com
Website: www.huseby.com
Address: 250 Commerce Street | Montgomery, Alabama 36104
Phone: (800) 333-2082 ext.573
Huseby, Inc. is a global leader in court reporting, trial support services, interactive real-time technology and mobile litigation support services. Huseby empowers the on-the-go attorney by bringing your office to your mobile device. Take a deposition via web conference with HD capability using your laptop, iPad and even your iPhone. Use your iPhone, Blackberry or Android to access your calendar and make changes to your schedule, and access critical case transcripts and exhibits from anywhere, securely.
LawCITE
Contact: Talley Kaleko
Email: talley@thelawcite.com
Website: www.thelawcite.com
Address: 122 South Calhoun Street | Tallahassee, FL 32301
Phone: (850) 583-5200
LawCite understands that your clients and cases still need attention despite the shutdown of much of our court system and economy, and despite having to work remotely. LawCite is already equipped to assist you by providing all of your outsourcing legal research and drafting needs at an affordable price that does not add to your overhead. Right now we are also providing all FJA members one free hour of research to help!
LegalFeeGuard
Contact: Sarah Haygood
Email: sarah.haygood@foundersspecialty.com
Website: www.legalfeeguard.com
Address: 1101 E. Jackson Street | Tampa, FL 33602
Phone: (800) 315-1258
Pegasus Legal Capital
Contact: Nick Sheridan
Email: sheridan@mylawfunds.com
Website: www.mylawfunds.com
Address: 1822 NW Corporate Blvd. Suite 110 | Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: (877) 698-8155
Pegasus Legal Funding’s goal is to help clients meet their basic living expenses and financial obligations throughout the duration of their case providing lawsuit fundings. By assisting people in creating realistic budgets and needs assessments during the underwriting process, Pegasus Legal Funding seeks to limit the cash advance amount needed by the plaintiff and thereby protect the amount of the net recovery to them from the future lawsuit settlement or award. This philosophy makes the Pegasus Legal Funding an important and responsible provider of cash advances for both plaintiffs and their attorneys.
Precision Translating Services, Inc.
Contact: Vincente De La Vega
Email: vince@pretran.com
Website: www.pretran.com
Address: P.O. Box 940547 | Miami, FL 33194
Phone: (305) 373-7874
More and more each day, people come together from around the globe to do business or the work of government. Indeed, we may live in one world, but it is very much a multilingual world. And since so much depends on being able to make oneself understood in other languages, we are here to assist you in whatever way we can – to put your words and thoughts into another language with accuracy and clarity, to enable you to know with total confidence that we are communicating precisely what you have in mind.
Soan Chau & Associates, Inc.
Contact: Christine Chau
Email: christine@chauconsulting.com
Website: www.chauconsulting.com
Address: 12266 Stone Bark Trail, Orlando, Fl 32824
Phone: (352) 256-1352
Soan Chau & Associates, LLC (SCA) is a transportation consulting firm specializing in accident reconstruction for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles and motorcycles with over twenty-one years of experience. SCA is qualified as a Human Factors Expert in traffic safety. SCA also offers services in crash data retrieval, animations, highway design, work-zone analysis, crash analysis and much more.
Trial Lawyer National Portrait Gallery
Contact: Trevor Goring
Email: trevor@triallawyergallery.org
Website: www.triallawyergallery.org
Address: 202 St. Zotique West | Montreal, Quebec, H2V4S9
Phone: (514) 278-9378
A virtual museum and educational archive, the Trial Lawyer National Portrait Gallery presents 25 years of legal portraiture. Fine art meets digital technology in our exclusive collection of champions of justice. Our mission is to record and promote the visual narrative of the trial lawyer community and others who dedicate their lives to a fair and balanced justice system accessible to all.
Upchurch Watson White & Max
Contact: Patricia Moten
Email: pmoten@uww-adr.com
Website: www.uww-adr.com
Address: 125 South Palmetto Avenue | Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Phone: (386) 253-1560
Disclaimer:
An attorney should not discuss non-recourse advance funding with a client unless it is done in compliance with Florida Bar Ethics Opinion 00-3. The Florida Bar discourages the use of non-recourse advance funding companies. An attorney may provide a client with information about companies that offer non-recourse advance funding if it is in the client’s interest and done in compliance with Florida Bar Ethics Opinion 00-3. The individual lawyer is responsible for ensuring that his or her conduct is in compliance with the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar and comports with Florida Ethics Opinion 00-03. The Florida Justice Association recommends that attorneys who do provide names of non-recourse advance funding companies to clients should provide only names of companies that are in conformity with the guidelines contained in the agreement between the New York Attorney General and certain companies dated Feb. 17, 2005. The Florida Justice Association makes no determination or representation as to whether any particular non-recourse advance funding company is in conformity with Florida Bar rules or opinions, or any other guidelines.