Such was supposedly a law firm’s explanation for why they wanted a picture of San Francisco on their web page, though they didn’t have office there. [Clients From Hell]
Posts Tagged ‘chasing clients’
On the streets of Laredo
There’s plenty of accident-chasing, barratry and “runner” use, per the presenters at one seminar [LareDOS]
February 12 roundup
- Patent trolls are thriving, one study finds [271 Patent Blog, The Prior Art, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PDF]
- One plaintiff’s lawyer’s view: Did Rep. John Murtha Die From Medical Malpractice? [Turkewitz]
- “Rubber stamps for two [class action] settlements” [Ted Frank, Center for Class Action Fairness, AOL and Yahoo cases]
- Little League and baseball bats: “America’s favorite pastime collides with favorite pastime of personal injury lawyers” [Bob Dorigo Jones]
- States push home day-care providers into unions [Stossel]
- U.K.: “Cardiologist will fight libel case ‘to defend free speech’” [Times Online] More on British libel tourism: Frances Gibb, Times Online (“It’s official – London is the libel capital of the world” ), Citizen Media Law, Gordon Crovitz/WSJ, N.Y. Times.
- From a half-year back, but missed then: FBI says Miami lawyer bought stolen hospital records for purposes of soliciting patients [HIPAA Blog, Ambrogi/Legal Blog Watch]
- Would-be Green Police can be found in Cambridge, Mass., not just Super Bowl ads [Peter Wilson, American Thinker via Graham]
“Get what’s yours! Demented, explosion-filled ad for injury lawyer”
Those grainy explosions and cars hurtling through the air look awfully familiar, as if they’ve appeared in other law firms’ footage. At any rate, this Berger & Green ad from Pittsburgh is getting attention via a link on BoingBoing.
“The Five Creepiest Defense Attorney Websites”
Whether or not these are the very creepiest, Cracked has found some instances where law firms might want to rethink the artwork or slogans on their sites. Not included, mercifully, is the Texas law firm that yanked several tasteless stock photos from its website last year after setting off a blogosphere furor.
NYT covers funny “Machete” injury-lawyer ad
In its advertising column. Overlawyered had it last week.
Actual funny lawyer TV ad
Via Scott Greenfield, from the New York firm of Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman:
Wanted to hire: one Wikipedia writer
A “celebrity attorney” is offering a gig on L.A. Craigslist [Virginia Postrel]
December 21 roundup
- “CBO Stands By Its Report: Tort Reform Would Save Billions” [ShopFloor; our weekend post on what actually wound up in Reid bill]
- “Indianapolis Tacks on Steep Fines for Challenging Traffic Tickets” [Balko]
- “Fugitive Located Inside Homeland Security Dept. Office” [Lowering the Bar]
- Assumption of risk? New York courts field legal complaints over mosh dance injuries [Hochfelder]
- Company claiming patent on Ajax web technique is suing lots of defendants [W3C, ImVivo via @petewarden]
- Why Arizona voters still back Sheriff Joe [Conor Friedersdorf/Daily Dish, von Spakovsky/NRO (deploring “persecution” of Arpaio), Greenfield]
- “Are Breast Implants and Donated Organs Marital Assets?” [Carton, Legal Blog Watch]
- “Disbarment Looms for First Attorney Convicted Under N.J. Anti-Runner Law” [NJLJ]
“Law firm offers divorce vouchers for Christmas”
No word about reconciliation coupons, though, in this promotion by a London law firm. [Ananova, The Lawyer]