… here come the cheesy lawyer solicitations. [AnnMarie McDonald, NJLRA]
Posts Tagged ‘chasing clients’
“Converting information-seekers into hopping mad, ready-to-sue prospects”
Frontiers of client-chasing, U.K. edition
A no-win, no-fee outfit in Liverpool “is offering customers an iPad 2 if they make a personal injury claim.” [Daily Mail]
Great moments in lawyer advertising: “Successful, Greedy Attorneys”
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.
Annals of tasteful legal marketing
KickEmOutQuick evictions and collections, based in Ogden, Utah [Natasha Lydon, Above the Law]
“Ever argued with a woman?”
Copyranter’s selection of the “sketchiest lawyer billboards” [via AtL]
U.K.: “Injury claim referral fees to be banned”
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]
Buffalo lawmakers irate at law firm ad set in council chambers
“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.
Great moments in lawyer advertising
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]
June 22 roundup
- 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]