Fun with Avvo
July 16, 2008
The attorney-rating site Avvo.com now includes Maryland lawyers, a development I wrote about in today’s paper. I spent yesterday reporting the story, which included a fair bit of noodling around on the site. Here are a few things I noticed:
Peter Angelos, with a rating of 6.7 out of 10, is a merely “good” lawyer. Fellow toxic tort giant Peter T. Nicholl doesn’t even get a number rating.
Warren Brown? Margaret Mead? Billy Murphy? Gerry Martin? Ken Ravenell? These crimlaw big shots are rated “no concern,” meaning Avvo doesn’t have enough info on them to put together a numerical rating.
To be fair, at this point, less than 11 percent of the more than 32,000 Maryland lawyers listed on the site have been given a number rating.
Another observation: it looks like Avvo may be listing some big-firm types who do predominantly defense-side product liability litigation as “defective/dangerous products” lawyers, which to me would imply that they do plaintiff-side work.
All right, you’ve finished reading this blog post. Now go check your own rating. I know you’re going to do it, if you haven’t already.
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
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