TV Lawyers

These personal injury lawyers that advertise on TV are the biggest slimeballs going. The best known locally is James Sokolove. You see his ads mainly during the noon news, or during daytime TV. Targeting all the soap opera watchers. If I ever needed a lawyer he'd be the last guy I'd call. Looks like a dick.

They are ambulance chasers. Whatever the hot buzz is in the media about bad medicine or dangerous products, they are on the case. Asbestos poisoning, Vioxx, securities fraud. Anything you want to sue somebody for, they're there to help, collect their 33%, and add to the country's litigation madness.

Here's a website urging lawyers to advertise on TV because "TV advertising reaches people with serious injuries IN BED at home or in the hospital where they don't have access to the Internet or Yellow Pages." Gee how "equal-access" of you. Just dial 1-800-HURT-911. Very clever.

And here's an even better one. This may be related to the above. A blog about lawyer advertising. This post warns about the costs of redoing your billboard or other advertising campaigns if one of your partners is suspended or disbarred and you have to change your firm's name. It suggests that if you think you may have been caught doing anything wrong, you might want to hold off on advertising for a while. The post ends with "The moral of this story is that when advertising, always be on your best behavior and make sure that everyone in the firm is." Then I guess if you weren't advertising, you could behave as badly as you wanted?

I don't have much use for lawyers period, but these guys are the scum of the earth.

Uh, yeah that sounds believable

So this is Neil Entwistle's cover story?

Neil Entwistle told police that on Friday January 20, 2006, he left his home around 9 a.m. to run an errand. Upon his return, he found the bodies of his wife and daughter dead from gunshot wounds. Entwistle told the sergeant that he covered up the bodies, grabbed a knife and contemplated suicide. Instead, Entwistle drove to his father-in-laws home in Carver to get a gun in order to shoot himself but could not get into the home. Neil Entwistle then decided to fly to his parents home in England.

At the risk of sounding like Nancy Grace, if he gets off on this one, his attorney is better (and more of sleazebag) than Johnny Cochran, and our legal system is more fucked up than I thought.

This is the next Scott Peterson story, so I assume everyone had heard about it. If not, read this.