Overlawyered » chasing clients http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Great moments in lawyer advertising: “Successful, Greedy Attorneys” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/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 BusStopAdGreedyAttys

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/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/ 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 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/ 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]

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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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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-22-roundup/feed/ 0     “Judge rules Righthaven lacks standing to sue, threatens sanctions over misrepresentations” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/judge-rules-righthaven-lacks-standing-to-sue-threatens-sanctions-over-misrepresentations/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/judge-rules-righthaven-lacks-standing-to-sue-threatens-sanctions-over-misrepresentations/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:04:55 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23431 Copyright troll tripped up:

    A federal judge in Las Vegas today issued a potentially devastating ruling against copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC, finding it doesn’t have standing to sue over Las Vegas Review-Journal stories, that it has misled the court and threatening to impose sanctions against Righthaven. … [U.S. District Court Judge Roger] Hunt’s ruling today came in a 2010 Righthaven lawsuit against the Democratic Underground, operator of a big political website.

    One of DU’s message board posters had reprinted without permission, but with link and credit, four paragraphs’ worth of an article under copyright to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is one of a number of newspapers with working agreements with RightHaven. And this part’s interesting:

    In their counterclaim [which Judge Hunt allowed to proceed], attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital free speech group based in San Francisco, hit Righthaven and Stephens Media with allegations of barratry (the alleged improper incitement of litigation); and champerty (an allegedly improper relationship between one funding and one pursuing a lawsuit)….

    Some fans of entrepreneurial lawyering in the academy and elsewhere have sought to portray rules against barratry and champerty as wrongheaded survivals of a much older approach to the role of the legal profession. But it looks as if EFF — no one’s idea of a Blackstone-reading antiquarian club — just put those rules to powerful use. [Las Vegas Sun]

    P.S. Bloggers who settled wonder: can we get our money back?

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/judge-rules-righthaven-lacks-standing-to-sue-threatens-sanctions-over-misrepresentations/feed/ 3     Baltimore’s “Injury LawMobile” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/baltimores-injury-lawmobile/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/baltimores-injury-lawmobile/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:24:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23326 The Maryland Daily Record (sub) has a Google-accessible pic of this lawyerly venture into street advertising (via Miller). Compare this 2004 NYC story, where the van actually contained a mobile law office, and its followup.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/baltimores-injury-lawmobile/feed/ 2     From Florida governor to TV lawyer pitchman http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/from-florida-governor-to-tv-lawyer-pitchman/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/from-florida-governor-to-tv-lawyer-pitchman/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 13:59:18 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22878 It only took Charlie Crist a few months, and was no particular surprise given his record in office [Daily Caller, WSJ Law Blog]. More: Turkewitz.

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