Comments on: The #1 Threat to Respectability for Lawyers: Bears https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 24 May 2008 04:43:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: demosthenes.or.locke https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/comment-page-1/#comment-14767 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:12:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/#comment-14767 Here in West Virginia, we have a commercial where a talking cartoon dog tries to convince accident victims to call a certain plaintiff’s firm because they’ve got “heavy hitters”

I’ll take your bear commercial anyday, at least it makes sense.

]]> By: TC https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/comment-page-1/#comment-14766 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:40:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/#comment-14766 “The #1 Threat to Respectability for Lawyers: Lawyers”

]]> By: Andrews https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/comment-page-1/#comment-14765 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:48:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/#comment-14765 Weren’t there a few cases mentioned on this site about 18 months ago where lawyers were getting ethics violations for portraying themselves using bulldogs? yet somehow, appearing as a baby-toting bear is a-ok with the bar? I am so glad I dropped out of law school, I was never going to understand the legal mind.

]]> By: Joe Bingham https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/comment-page-1/#comment-14764 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:19:33 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/#comment-14764 ^^^^ Not related!

]]> By: Richard Nieporent https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/comment-page-1/#comment-14763 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:28:02 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/#comment-14763 I’m only surprised that they didn’t make the usual disclaimer to satisfy the animal rights people: No bears were hurt in the making of this commercial. Of course in this case they would have had to add: However a few babies were unavoidably mauled.

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/comment-page-1/#comment-14762 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:37:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/12/the-1-threat-to-respectability-for-lawyers-bears/#comment-14762 My favorite line was Colbert’s: “I hate to imagine what happened after the flash went off and startled it”.

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