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By: Social Media Tyro » Blog Archive » Five Lawyers Trading on the Death of an Innocent

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:20:21 +0000

[...] explain how it is okay to use a dead nine-year-old child to advertise legal services. Like Sassower, Chase, and Kahn (who are also invited to explain), Strand, Beck, Petersen, Hark, and Hilles are paying FindLaw to [...]

By: Paul Walcutt

Paul Walcutt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:58:56 +0000

I’m glad to see you take a tilt at FindLaw. I’ve found that they were very successful at selling a lot of overpriced services to lawyers in the late 90′s/early 00′s. For example, $650/month for hosting of a cookie-cutter website and listing in their directory (which by my calculations, is probably good for one or two clients a year – maybe). These lawyers are ignorant about and intimidated by the internet and having someone with “law” in their name, puts them at ease, especially since they are under the umbrella of West/Thompson. Many of those lawyers are not active on the web and only have a presence because they know that they should have some sort of presence out there. Most of these folks would absolutely agree with the “outsourcing your marketing = outsourcing your reputation” mantra, if only they were aware of what was going on (or had some framework for understanding a copy cat, piggybacking, fakeass “blog”. Unfortunately, they are not going to get pulled into this until their marketers do something particular egregious, like the above.

By: Nathaniel Tarlow

Nathaniel Tarlow — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:23:34 +0000

Nu, Markele, you want I should give you a mazel tov on the bissel of Yiddish you used to describe the chazerai they’re trying to pass off as blogs? These gonifs and their spiel are enough to drive you meshuga.