Overlawyered » chasing clients http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 14:01:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 “48 hours after a fender-bender…” http://overlawyered.com/2012/05/48-hours-after-a-fender-bender/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=48-hours-after-a-fender-bender http://overlawyered.com/2012/05/48-hours-after-a-fender-bender/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 15:40:52 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=29398 … here come the cheesy lawyer solicitations. [AnnMarie McDonald, NJLRA] Tweet Tags: chasing clients, New Jersey

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]]> … here come the cheesy lawyer solicitations. [AnnMarie McDonald, NJLRA]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/05/48-hours-after-a-fender-bender/feed/ 1 “Converting information-seekers into hopping mad, ready-to-sue prospects” http://overlawyered.com/2012/03/converting-information-seekers-into-hopping-mad-ready-to-sue-prospects/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=converting-information-seekers-into-hopping-mad-ready-to-sue-prospects http://overlawyered.com/2012/03/converting-information-seekers-into-hopping-mad-ready-to-sue-prospects/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:41:41 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27964 And if that happens to involve disguising your legal marketing effort as a disease-information site, well, who’s to stop you? [Ad Age] We’ve covered the issue in the past, e.g., here, here, here, and here. Tweet Tags: chasing clients

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]]> And if that happens to involve disguising your legal marketing effort as a disease-information site, well, who’s to stop you? [Ad Age] We’ve covered the issue in the past, e.g., here, here, here, and here.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/03/converting-information-seekers-into-hopping-mad-ready-to-sue-prospects/feed/ 1 Frontiers of client-chasing, U.K. edition http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/frontiers-of-client-chasing-u-k-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frontiers-of-client-chasing-u-k-edition http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/frontiers-of-client-chasing-u-k-edition/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:09:11 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27704 A no-win, no-fee outfit in Liverpool “is offering customers an iPad 2 if they make a personal injury claim.” [Daily Mail] Tweet Tags: champerty, chasing clients, United Kingdom

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]]> A no-win, no-fee outfit in Liverpool “is offering customers an iPad 2 if they make a personal injury claim.” [Daily Mail]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/frontiers-of-client-chasing-u-k-edition/feed/ 1 Great moments in lawyer advertising: “Successful, Greedy Attorneys” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising-successful-greedy-attorneys/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising-successful-greedy-attorneys http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising-successful-greedy-attorneys/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:43:55 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27287 A park-bench ad — and really, what better way to select a lawyer for an important matter? — advertises “Injury Law Group, LLC — Successful, Greedy, Attorneys — We Won’t Let You Settle Cheap.” [@mattniemi] The sponsors appear to be this Pittsburgh-based lawyer network. Tweet Tags: chasing clients, Pittsburgh

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A park-bench ad — and really, what better way to select a lawyer for an important matter? — advertises “Injury Law Group, LLC — Successful, Greedy, Attorneys — We Won’t Let You Settle Cheap.” [@mattniemi] The sponsors appear to be this Pittsburgh-based lawyer network.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising-successful-greedy-attorneys/feed/ 3 Annals of tasteful legal marketing http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:41:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27014 KickEmOutQuick evictions and collections, based in Ogden, Utah [Natasha Lydon, Above the Law] Tweet Tags: chasing clients, landlord tenant law

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]]> KickEmOutQuick evictions and collections, based in Ogden, Utah [Natasha Lydon, Above the Law]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing/feed/ 0 “Ever argued with a woman?” http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/ever-argued-with-a-woman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ever-argued-with-a-woman http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/ever-argued-with-a-woman/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:18:48 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26050 Copyranter’s selection of the “sketchiest lawyer billboards” [via AtL] Tweet Tags: chasing clients

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]]> Copyranter’s selection of the “sketchiest lawyer billboards” [via AtL]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/ever-argued-with-a-woman/feed/ 3 U.K.: “Injury claim referral fees to be banned” http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/u-k-injury-claim-referral-fees-to-be-banned/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-k-injury-claim-referral-fees-to-be-banned http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/u-k-injury-claim-referral-fees-to-be-banned/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:02:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24523 Britain: “The government is to ban referral fees in personal injury claims in an attempt to curb the ‘compensation culture’. It says the current system in which personal injury details are sold on by insurance companies to lawyers has led to rising insurance costs.” [BBC] Tweet Tags: chasing clients, insurers, United Kingdom

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]]> Britain: “The government is to ban referral fees in personal injury claims in an attempt to curb the ‘compensation culture’. It says the current system in which personal injury details are sold on by insurance companies to lawyers has led to rising insurance costs.” [BBC]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/u-k-injury-claim-referral-fees-to-be-banned/feed/ 0 Buffalo lawmakers irate at law firm ad set in council chambers http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/buffalo-lawmakers-irate-at-law-firm-ad-set-in-council-chambers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buffalo-lawmakers-irate-at-law-firm-ad-set-in-council-chambers http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/buffalo-lawmakers-irate-at-law-firm-ad-set-in-council-chambers/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:32:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24159 “What’s next? A dog food commercial?” fumed Council President David A. Franczyk, who says, as do colleagues, that they were never informed that a prominent local injury-law practice was filming a TV ad in its historic chambers [Buffalo News via WSJ]. The firm of Cellino & Barnes, which we’ve met previously on this site, says [...]

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]]> “What’s next? A dog food commercial?” fumed Council President David A. Franczyk, who says, as do colleagues, that they were never informed that a prominent local injury-law practice was filming a TV ad in its historic chambers [Buffalo News via WSJ]. The firm of Cellino & Barnes, which we’ve met previously on this site, says it has no plans to discontinue showing the ad despite the lawmakers’ displeasure.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/buffalo-lawmakers-irate-at-law-firm-ad-set-in-council-chambers/feed/ 5 Great moments in lawyer advertising http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:13:46 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23983 Because joining your head to Abraham Lincoln’s body is such a great way to keep everything in perspective [Lowering the Bar] P.S. Runner up? Baltimore’s Barry Glazer [Above the Law] Tweet Tags: Baltimore, chasing clients

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]]> Because joining your head to Abraham Lincoln’s body is such a great way to keep everything in perspective [Lowering the Bar]

P.S. Runner up? Baltimore’s Barry Glazer [Above the Law]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/great-moments-in-lawyer-advertising/feed/ 0 June 22 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-22-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=june-22-roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-22-roundup/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:20:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23497 Supreme Court disbars Bill Lerach [Richard Samp, WLF] And check out the byline of the former class-action king’s recent contribution to The Nation; do you think it omits anything material? [h/t Bob Lenzner] Ted Frank guessed right on outcome of Wal-Mart case but still lost big betting on it [PoL] After feds seize online bettors’ [...]

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  • Supreme Court disbars Bill Lerach [Richard Samp, WLF] And check out the byline of the former class-action king’s recent contribution to The Nation; do you think it omits anything material? [h/t Bob Lenzner]
  • Ted Frank guessed right on outcome of Wal-Mart case but still lost big betting on it [PoL]
  • After feds seize online bettors’ money, Anne Arundel County, Maryland police department crows over windfall [CEI] And c’mon Maryland, surely we in the home state of H.L. Mencken and Frederick Douglass can do better in the liberty rankings than this;
  • “Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Filed After Man Killed by Rooster” [Lowering the Bar]
  • Hotel union behind California bill mandating fitted sheets [Daily Caller, earlier]
  • Fifth Circuit upholds constitutionality of Texas law banning barratry (stirring up litigation) [Christian Southwick, Legal Ethics Forum]
  • A Linda Greenhouse column I agree with? One of us must be slipping [vagueness in criminal statutes, see related Harvey Silverglate]
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