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| Needs a check up from the neck up  |
The Florida Bar has to review and approve ads. The fact that they allow this type of advertising is bullshit. Makes us all look like crooks and pimps. __________________________ The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not for target shooting … it’s there so that you and I can protect our homes and our children and and our families and our lives. And it’s also there as fundamental check on government tyranny. Sen Ted Cruz | |||
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we're absolutely lousy with these guys in Nevada, that said they're all pretty competent lawyers it's my understanding we've got a really tough bar. | |||
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A local guy has been running ads with actors portraying clients. One says, "They got me $11 million." The next says, " They got me $16 million." I haven't seen the ads in a week or so I'm hoping the law board had a little talk with them. Then there's the mesothelioma ad I heard today, "If you or a friend has died from...". How's that again? | |||
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| No good deed goes unpunished  |
I agree. Lawyer ads on TV would still be against the rules if I had my way. | |||
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Virtually all lawyers except the personal injury specialists feel that way. I certainly do. An additional problem is that many quality personal injury attorneys are unable to get clients anymore, because they cannot compete with the huge advertising budgets of the purveyors of those obnoxious ads. Those ads work, though - to the point of almost cornering the market on personal injury cases. __________________________ "Sooner or later, wherever people go, there's the law. And sooner or later, they find out that God's already been there." -- John Wayne as Chisum | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
As an attorney I think this kind of advertising is a big factor contributing to the negative opinions lots of folks have about lawyers. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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I despise them. We have several local firms with crash commercials and railing against trucking companies. One ends with "We know how to get the dirt on these trucking companies". Disgusting! | |||
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Are you in Texas? That sounds like Thomas J, although many others do the same thing.
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
This slimeball showed up around here recently. https://www.forthepeople.com/a...robert-f-kennedy-jr/ ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Nope, Virginia. My absolute favorite here is a guy in Tidewater, who calls himself "The Hammer", Lowell "The Hammer" Stanley. His tag line is "I may be an SOB but I'm your SOB". | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
There are at least 4 major advertisers in my area (DFW): "The Texas Hammer" and his son; Thomas J.; and that female lawyer. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Lovin' the P7 |
I wish they at least had a few restrictions on what they say. I hate that they say "I got a check for $400,000!" -- makes it sound like winning the lottery. I also hate Morgan & Morgan here in Georgia running a series of ads to be sure you know the insurance company and not the business owner/truck driver/etc. will have to pay the settlement. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I have mixed feelings. It's not like companies don't have a history of consciously doing something wrong. Lawyers serve a purpose in helping companies do their due diligence. On the other hand, I start hearing Johnson & Johnson is facing lawsuits for cancer from people from using their talcum powder. Then, recently, there's a lawsuit ad for people using some diabetes medicine who got their leg amputated. I got to thinking, well, diabetics ARE prone to getting their legs amputated. I'm assuming the lawyers will show that diabetics who are on these drugs have a higher incidence of leg amputations than diabetics who aren't on these drugs. But, then again, people who would be put on these drugs would be the diabetics who have worst cases of diabetes and would therefore be a subset with higher incidence of amputations even without the drugs. The bad thing is such lawsuits will tend to stifle R&D for similar medicines due to higher target profits required to cover lawsuits. So everyone loses except the lawyers who got the contingency fees. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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I saw a advertisement here, they were looking for clients who took a drug called Abilify. I guess it caused them to over eat and gamble. | |||
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This^^. I hate it. I hate that it is profitable. The guys on billboards are always cheesy. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Before I was in law school, and for a time after I was admitted, 40+ years ago, the practice of law was seen as a dignified profession. Advertising as we see it today was strictly forbidden, and even discrete marketing efforts were highly constricted. That view has steadily eroded as the years went by. I took an ad in the newspaper back in the 1980’s. I would represent either a buyer or seller in a residential real estate transaction, for $200. I would review all documents, prepare any that were needed, argue with the title co., etc. I forget how long the ad ran, maybe a month or so, but I sold approximately none of these deals. Despite the fact that very few parties had any real idea of the process or documents, or ramifications, they relied on the brokers, who would rather be marinated in sheep shit than have someone hire a lawyer who might spot some problem and kibosh the deal. I ran the ad only a short time but kept the offer up for years. Nobody ever took me up on it. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I dont like the advertising lawyers but I don't have a problem with personal injury attorneys. I see insurance companies trying to screw innocent but unknowing people every single day. They are way worse than any lawyer I've ever run across. ----------------------------------------- Roll Tide! Glock Certified Armorer NRA Certified Firearms Instructor | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
They need to save as much as they can to be able to pay the not so innocent folks out there trying to screw them, some of which succeed. I recall a case being tried in San Diego. One of the parties was represented by the famous but aging Melvin Belli. I believe it was a slip and fall. It was revealed after the plaintiffs had rested, that the plaintiffs were crooks, conmen, who had gone all over the place with this scam. There were court transcripts, video, audio, etc. A couple of them went to jail. I also recall a story also a long time ago about Rob Walton, son of Sam Walton, who was a lawyer in an Oklahoma law firm which handled slip and falls for Walmarts. I forget the numbers but it was staggering what manpower was involved in investigating and resolving all those claims, quite a few of which were staged. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I'm sure there are some people that try to screw the insurance companies but all insurance companies screw people. ----------------------------------------- Roll Tide! Glock Certified Armorer NRA Certified Firearms Instructor | |||
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From a TV ad not too long ago: "Been in an accident? You may be injured and not even know it! Call..." Truly despicable. I have a lot of friends who are attorneys and a few are PI guys (not the ones doing the TV ads...at least so far). They truly believe they are fighting for the little guy in some noble cause. Until they consider taking less than 33% + expenses, I will continue to believe they are deluding themselves. | |||
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