A lawyer’s commercials depict him spinning “like a human tornado, generating cash for his clients,” and proclaim “GOAL” in soccer style as he gets checks. “As long as my ads are not false or misleading, I can say what I want to say,” says Glen Lerner, who’s currently in a dispute with the State Bar of Nevada about the wording of one of his slogans, “The Heavy Hitter”. “I’m selling a product. Me … I’m like the Ty-D-Bol man.” (Glenn Puit, “‘Heavy Hitter’ will sue”, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 2)(via Lattman).
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heavy breathing over “heavy hitting” lawyers
As Carolyn Elefant (” More Bar Silliness : Heavy Hitter is Misleading “) and Ben Cowgill (” Heavy hitters : here, there and everywhere “) both reported and analyzed
Walter, Are you coming down on the side of the legal profession’s Dignity Police? They care more about saving the profession’s image, and protecting it from competition, than about protecting consumers or 1st Amendment rights. See heavy breathing over “heavy hitting” lawyers
“Me … I’m like the Ty-D-Bol man.”
A statement like that doesn’t need further comment.
Between my junior and senior years in high school, I spent part of one summer selling Ty-D-Bol door to door. After getting my engineering degree and interviewing for jobs in the aerospace/defense industries, I would generally leave that off my resume’ work experience.