As Eric Turkewitz notes, “when a firm outsources its marketing, it also outsources its ethics.”
Posts Tagged ‘chasing clients’
The online business model
What if it turns out to depend on selling lots and lots of lawyer ads?
Lawyers who advertise heavily
Some whose names adorn billboards and bus placards have less (or different!) experience in the courtroom than you might assume [Ken Shigley via Day on Torts]
Five-year-old boy orphaned in crash. Call our law offices today!
A Seattle lawyer’s online marketing efforts are unlikely to win any prizes for high-mindedness, tact or dignity [Patrick at Popehat]
June 10 roundup
- British TV regulators field many complaints about performers’ setbacks on reality contest shows [Guardian via Marginal Revolution]
- “Judge Tosses Much of Campaign Contributions Case Against Katrina Lawyer” (Pierce O’Donnell, said to have reimbursed employees for donations to Edwards race) [NLJ, earlier]
- Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney in Chicago, threatens to sue publisher over contents of forthcoming book [WSJ Law Blog, NY Mag “Intelligencer”]
- Late-night neighbor dispute: “Honking horn not constitutionally protected” [Seattle Times]
- “Strippers Sue to Be Classified as Employees, Not Independent Contractors” [NLJ]
- Boston-based James Sokolove, biggest legal pitchman, is planning to get even bigger with $25 million ad budget [Wicked Local via Ambrogi]
- What more satisfying for a lawyer than to win an anti-SLAPP motion against someone trying to silence one’s client? [Ken @ Popehat]
- “Despite crazy rules, convoluted taxes and rampant lawyers, America is still a great place to do business” [The Economist]
Lawyer ads: Esquire’s best-of-the-worst
The magazine picks five TV ad campaigns that are unlikely to get their attorney-perpetrators on anyone’s list as Supreme Court material.
“Million Dollar Advocates Forum”
Prestigious honorific? Marketing gimmick? Eric Turkewitz does some digging, and also passes along this tangential but memorable anecdote:
My father likes to tell the story of the first lawyer to lose a million dollar malpractice case in New York. Rather than hurting his reputation, he became the million dollar go-to lawyer for the big cases.
“Can you afford your doggie door?”
From Dog Scoop, a followup on that “hazardous pet door” story we covered last week (with a hat tip to the skill of Overlawyered readers in, well, digging).
Incidentally, Consumer Reports was really impressed with the dog-door-dangers story, promoting it on at least three of its blogs, with no hint whatsoever of the law-firm provenance of the PetAccessDangers.org website or any other trial-lawyer connections to the story.
Annals of tasteful lawyer advertising
“To say that I’ve never tried a case is false, and that’s what I object to”
Attorney Corey Trotz of Nahon, Saharovich and Trotz, known for his West Tennessee TV advertising, thinks he’s being criticized unfairly. [Hank Dudding, “Lawyers feud over trial experience”, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Apr. 21; Tom Freeland].