Photo of the day: flipped car lying alongside “car accident pain” 1-800 billboard after accident. The driver’s injuries are not considered life-threatening. [WTSP Tampa]
[Reworded 12:30 after commenter E. Bell pointed out that the 1-800 line in question disclaims being a lawyer referral service]
P.S. From commenter Eric T.: “Theory of suit: Driver was distracted by billboard and sues advertiser.”
“You don’t need to worry about nothin’, baby — I’ll cut up the competition”. [via “Five Ridiculous Lawyer Ads”, CriminalJustice.Change.org]
The sleaziest asbestos-suit-marketing practice yet? You decide. In what is unfortunately not an April Fool’s joke, Roger Parloff at Fortune exposes a network of client recruitment sites that would fool many casual visitors into thinking they are sponsored by the federal government’s Veteran’s Administration, under headings like “VA Medical Center Palo Alto” and corresponding domain names. A founding partner of well-known New York plaintiff’s firm Seeger Weiss expressed regret about his firm’s listing as a sponsor of the site. The full story is here (& welcome Legal Blog Watch readers).
This one has rap and animation.
Actually, a pair of them, showcased at Above the Law.
Robert Ambrogi at LawSites checks out one recent entry.
With unintended comic results, in the case of an old Ann Althouse post about Bob Dylan. “Instead of dashing to the scene of an accident, lawyers in need of clients dash to blog posts about accidents.”
The BBC’s “Horrible Histories” kids’ show parodies a certain familiar sort of ad [via MetaFilter]: