Lions and tigers and bears? Oh, my!
February 7, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has a great story today on offbeat lawyer advertisements and the ulcers they cause in state bar officials. From the piece:
But the Florida bar isn’t buckling. It filed a complaint in 2004 against Fort Lauderdale personal-injury attorney Marc Andrew Chandler over ads that featured a pit bull wearing a spiked collar. The Florida Supreme Court sided with the bar in 2005, ruling that pit bulls conjure up images of viciousness. “Were we to approve,” the court wrote, “images of sharks, wolves, crocodiles, and piranhas could follow.”
Despite these fears, the bar in 2006 approved the use of panthers, the mascot of Miami firm Panter, Panter & Sampedro PA. At least two other Florida firms have images of lions on their Web sites, so far without censure. That panthers and lions have been tolerated bugged the pit bull lawyer, who asked a bar official how the state could favor vicious cats over pit bulls. “I asked him, ‘What would you rather deal with, a pit bull or a lion?’” Mr. Chandler says, recalling a 2006 telephone call. “There was silence on the other end. I could hear the sound of crickets chirping in the background.”
If the folks in Florida find pit bulls inappropriate, how about bulldogs, like the mascot of our former gov.’s firm? (Womble doesn’t seem to have an office in Florida, which I suppose is good news for Winston.)
Not having cable, I rarely see lawyer ads on TV, so someone’s going to have to fill me in on whether any Maryland attorneys are using potentially vicious animals in their ads.
Also, are there any ads, animal-or-alien-containing or otherwise, that you’d like to see yanked?
What would be the least apropos animal mascot for a law firm? A basket of kittens, because lawyers shouldn’t be cuddly? A python, because no one wants a lawyer to squeeze them for all they’ve got? A possum, because a good lawyer shouldn’t play dead?
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
Sphere: Related ContentWSJ’s anonymous “Lawyer of the Year”
December 19, 2007
Akin to the American Bar Association’s “Lawyer of the Year” award, the Wall Street Journal last week asked its readers to nominate their most newsworthy lawyer of the year. Well, the results are in - but nobody seems to know who the person actually is!
According to the Journal, the “landslide” winner is “Loyola 2L,” (otherwise known as L2L) a law blogger whose claim to fame is beating “a loud and consistent drum of discontent around the Web by posting in online forums about the job prospects for graduates of nonelite law schools.”
L2L first appeared on the law blog scene about a year ago; from the moniker, the Journal speculates he or she was a second-year student at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Many of L2L’s comments center on how law school rankings (Loyola is a tier-two school) play an unfair role in access to well-paying jobs upon graduation.
Although now presumably a third-year, L2L’s true identity (gender included) remains a mystery to the general public.
Sphere: Related ContentDecline and Fall
August 2, 2007
I woke up this morning wondering how long it would it would take to see the effects of Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of The Wall Street Journal. I didn’t have long to wait.
When I opened my front door, my Journal was not waiting for me right next to the door where it always is. My heart sunk. What, no paper?
Then I found it. It was on the third step, just far enough down so I couldn’t see it from the door.
What’s next, Rupert? The second step? The first step? The sidewalk? The shrubbery? Clearly, the decline and fall of a great newspaper has begun. And I blame it all on Rupert.
-TOM LINTHICUM, Executive Editor
Sphere: Related ContentNot so fast, Rupert!
August 1, 2007
Before the ink on the contracts had dried and long before journalism’s purists stopped gnashing their teeth, word came Wednesday from the Federal Communications Commission that Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of The Wall Street Journal is still not a done deal.
Commissioner Michael J. Copps — not to be confused with 1980s television icon Michael J. Fox — issued a statement saying the deal needs to be reviewed by the FCC.
“This deal means more media consolidation and fewer independent voices, and it specifically impacts the local market in New York City,” Copp wrote.
He added, much to the delight of those decrying the purchase as a sign of the apocalypse, “What’s good for shareholders of huge media conglomerates isn’t always what’s good for the public interest or our civic dialogue.”
Speaking of civic dialogue, what do you think?
-LOUIS LLOVIO, Daily Record Business Writer
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