{"id":3662,"date":"2018-09-05T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:22:26","slug":"i-dont-make-money-off-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=3662","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t make money off referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s2\">Maybe I\u2019m like Larry David, but I have a lot of pet peeves. I hate when people whistle or sing in public. I hate when people talk on their cell phone in line. I also don\u2019t deal well with working with, working for, and being related to narcissists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">When it comes to business, I hate when a financial advisor I barely know is trying to sell me on what they\u2019re doing and <\/span><span class=\"s2\">alluding<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> that there is some referral fee out there for me. When I hear the pitch that they have a program where an attorney or accountant can get a referral fee for referring plan sponsor clients to said advisor, I cringe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">I get clients primarily from financial advisors and third party administrators (TPAs); I also get a bunch of clients directly from plan sponsors. I\u2019ve always maintained a law practice of being provider-neutral and I find it unethical to collect a fee other than a legal fee. When I worked for a number of TPAs, there were some well-known ERISA attorneys who did collect a fee from financial advisors for referrals. Whether this arrangement was disclosed, I have no idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">The point here is that any referral I make is not going to be attached with money in the palm of my hand. Getting paid for my legal services is more than enough.<\/span><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I\u2019m like Larry David, but I have a lot of pet peeves. I hate when people whistle or sing in public. I hate when people talk on their cell phone in line. I also don\u2019t deal well with working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=3662\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}