I wrote last week about a St. Louis lawyer using Groupon to attract clients. Now the New York State Bar has issued an ethics opinion. According to the recent opinion by the NY Bar Association Committee on Ethics: A lawyer may properly market legal services
Last year, according to SoloPracticeU, St. Louis attorney Craig S. Redler used Groupon to advertise a discount for will and power of attorney services. Before doing so he consulted the Missouri Bar Association which approved the use of Groupon as a means of lawyer advertising.
There’s a great post over at Above the Law about the end of the legal recession with predictions from the writers. While the recovery from recession has been slow, both the finance and legal sectors actually shed jobs in 2011 according to The Atlantic. From the Atlantic
I’ve spent a good part of my free time today watching legal advertising. Usually it’s hilariously bad. It reminds me of watching the high school news casts in the mornings before classes started. Everyone was just awful. But the two videos that stuck out today
The 1967 Velvet Underground album “The Velvet Underground and Nico” featured the song “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” a favorite song of Andy Warhol. The band paid tribute to Warhol on the album’s cover (below): Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting: The Velvet Underground sued a
CNN Headline News is playing in the Chicago airport as I await my return flight. As I type this from my phone they are reporting a rumor that Google, Facebook, twitter and numerous other Internet companies are planning to go offline for a day. The