Comments on: Lawyers’ license to defame adversaries

By: censored

censored — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:47:32 +0000

Reminds of the turn-of-the-century press article:

“How long the police will tolerate a downtown house of disrepute at 27 Broad Street, Third Floor (knock three times)?”

By: NE2d

NE2d — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:54:08 +0000

There’s a bankruptcy firm that runs ads here in the Chicago area (and maybe elsewhere) that states that credit counseling services receive “kickbacks” from credit cards. It’s debatable whether this is truly defamatory, but I’m sure the firm could never be held responsible.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:48:27 +0000

What poignant proof of Judge Dennis Jacobs point as quoted in the post just a few down from this one, The Secret Life of Judges:

“When I refer to the secret life of judges, I am speaking of an inner turn of mind that favors, empowers, and enables our profession and our brothers and sisters at the bar. It is secret, because it is unobserved and therefore unrestrained—by the judges themselves or by the legal community that so closely surrounds and nurtures us.”

Doesn’t look like much of secret to me, at least not in Tennessee!

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:53:07 +0000

Lawyers – more equal than the rest of us, and flaunting more each day.

By: Supremacy Claus

Supremacy Claus — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:05:06 +0000

This is the central tort reform question.

Immunity has always caused run away growth. Liability has meant eradication of an activity.

If one wants fewer lawsuits, end the self-dealt immunity of the lawyer profession. Torts will work on lawyer even better than they did on manufacturing.

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:29:29 +0000

So a defense attorney could put up a page saying things like:

Tired of Blood Sucking leeches like Stewart, Estes, & Donnell lying and cheating in order to steal your hard earned money though deceptive legal maneuvering? We’ll fight these low lives to protect you.

Hypothetically of course.