100 Hilarious Jokes, Because No One Is Too Old to Laugh!

[Tax Counsel]

Nobody ever did it better than, Attorney Archie!!!

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In my state, attorneys have to have their photos on their ads. Maybe that's the rule in whatever state this guy is located, too. If it wasn't required, I certainly wouldn't put my face on that billboard. I'd be much to embarrassed to walk around in public and have someone recognize me as "that guy with the Just Because You Did It Doesn't Mean You're Guilty ad". I'm pretty sure that in my state the Attorney Regulation Counsel would have a serious problem with this one. It's a good thing people don't look for billboards when they need a tax lawyer.

 

[Tax Counsel]

Near my home.

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I know for a fact that this billboard would get the attorney in trouble in my state. We had a couple of attorneys with billboards like that all over town then one week they all disappeared, replaced by much more toned down ads. In my state implying you'll get someone a big award in a lawsuit is expressly forbidden, meaning those attorneys didn't bother to read the rules before putting up those cheesy ads. I also don't think this one would get a lot of calls. He's relying on people getting that "TOPDOGLAW" is his phone number. Every attorney with a billboard puts their phone number in really large print to ensure people will see where to call.

 

[adjusterjack]

Not only is this guy on billboards, he's also on our city buses. Phoenix sells ads on buses and on our light rail cars.




Here's a cute one from Philadelphia.

 

[justblue]

In my state, attorneys have to have their photos on their ads. Maybe that's the rule in whatever state this guy is located, too. If it wasn't required, I certainly wouldn't put my face on that billboard. I'd be much to embarrassed to walk around in public and have someone recognize me as "that guy with the Just Because You Did It Doesn't Mean You're Guilty ad". I'm pretty sure that in my state the Attorney Regulation Counsel would have a serious problem with this one. It's a good thing people don't look for billboards when they need a tax lawyer.

that made me chuckle!

 

[Tax Counsel]

Not only is this guy on billboards, he's also on our city buses. Phoenix sells ads on buses and on our light rail cars.

Here's a cute one from Philadelphia.

Denver also puts ads on its buses and light rail, and a lot of those are lawyer ads. Rafi doesn't say anything that would lead anyone to think he's any better than any other lawyer. But at least his phone number can't missed. I lived in the Philly suburbs for a number of years. That bald approach is probably going over pretty well there.

 

[adjusterjack]

I remembered that there was a time that lawyer advertising was prohibited by the ABA but couldn't remember how and when it all started.

Turns out we can thank two Phoenix lawyers (John Bates and Van O'Steen) who put an ad in the Arizona Republic in 1976. The AZ Bar suspended their privileges and a lawsuit ensued. Went to the US Supreme Court which ruled the ban on advertising was a violation of the First Amendment, thus opening the floodgates.

Here's an article. If it comes up in Spanish just hit the translate button.

O'Steen y Bates, con ellos comenzó el marketing jurídico en el mundo

En este reportaje se narra como comenzó el marketing jurídico en Estados Unidos, y en el mundo, a través de un caso que desembocó en el Tribunal Supremo.

confilegal.com

 

[Tax Counsel]

I remembered that there was a time that lawyer advertising was prohibited by the ABA but couldn't remember how and when it all started.

The ABA simply set model rules that the state bars could follow, or not, as they wanted. While most states followed the ABA model rules on a lot of things, lawyer advertsing was always one where you'd see more variation among the states. Rules regulating ads for a variety of good and services have eased up considerably this century, including lawyer, drug, doctor, hospital, and alcohol ads. After the lawsuit you mentioned against the state bar (which is the state agency that regulates the practice bar and in most states has no link to the bar association) state bars had to loosen up their rules. The result is what you see today, where lawyers have abandoned notions of refined professional ads and gone for ads that start resembling ads for Crazy Larry's Furniture Stores with the hard sell and cheesy ads. Ads aren't a bad thing, but those tackless ads we often see today are an embarrassment to the profession, IMO.