Comments on: U.K.: “Hair salons offered a cut of solicitors’ fees” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-hair-salons-offered-a-cut-of-solicitors-fees/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: LAN3 https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-hair-salons-offered-a-cut-of-solicitors-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-4154 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:06:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3970#comment-4154 Nice to know that the ethical issue of lawyers engaged in advertisment is perfectly settled enough that these lawyers are willing to engage in a sketchy, ethically questionable form of advertisement.

]]> By: Mike Perry https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-hair-salons-offered-a-cut-of-solicitors-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-4153 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:41:46 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3970#comment-4153 A hairdresser’s client complains about her hubby, the sort of thing that happens all the time and that means nothing. And yet this scheme pays that hairdresser to push the woman into divorcing her husband.

What next? Hiring good-looking young guys to woe rich women, make them unhappy with their marriage and, when she files for a legally costly divorce (dividing up all that money can’t be cheap), then that handsome gigolo gets a large fee for referring. A few months later he moves on to wrecking yet another marriage for yet another fat referral fee.

Do we need further proof that some lawyers will do absolutely anything for money?

–Mike Perry, Seattle

]]> By: Otis B https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-hair-salons-offered-a-cut-of-solicitors-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-4152 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:19:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3970#comment-4152 Does this scheme really give hairdressers a financial incentive to breakup marriages? They only get paid for folks who do divorce not just for leads. That does seem a bit unethical.

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