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Coming Soon: Windshield Flyers

| October 28, 2009

I got this in the mail:And no, it wasn’t addressed to me:How embarrassing for David E. A., whose mail was delivered to my office, for the whole world to learn that he’s facing a criminal charge. There ought to be a rule against lawyers sending out solicitations like this.

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Lethal Generosity Revisited

| August 20, 2009

I wrote last November about Lethal Generosity in the Legal Profession, my thesis being “that the most generous members of the criminal defense community are the most credible and influential.” I was talking then about sharing information and motions amongst criminal-defense lawyers. But it’s become apparent to me that the principle applies in the online [...]

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Andy Nolen: Today’s Last Chapter

| August 17, 2009

In conclusion from this post, this post, this post, and this post: Andy Nolen has been disciplined by the State Bar before. He persists in engaging in deceptive advertising. In my opinion, he needs to be removed from what passes in his world for the “practice of law.” Whether they know it or not, his [...]

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Andy Nolen: Total Fraud?

| August 17, 2009

Following on from this post, this post, and this post: I can’t swear to it, but I’ve heard that Andy Nolen has never tried a case to a jury. The Harris County Justice Information System, JIMS, doesn’t show a jury trial for Andy Nolen in records of 342 cases going back to 2006. Despite his [...]

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The Continuing Adventures of “Lawyer” Andy Nolen

| August 17, 2009

Following on from this post and this post: When I googled Mekisha Murray to find her address and let her know that she’d been the victim of an Andy Nolen false negative review, up popped her Yahoo Local page, with (in addition to the one-star review of the last post) this two-star review from“niecy” on [...]

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The Further Adventures of “Lawyer” Andy Nolen

| August 17, 2009

Following on from this post . . . “Jerry k.” left 31 reviews for Houston lawyers on July 23, 2009: 30 one-star reviews and one five-star review. Guess who got five stars. Yep, James A. “Andy” Nolen. Among the lawyers panned by “jerry k.”: Don Becker (again, twice on this day), Todd Leffler, Dan Corrigan, [...]

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Andy Nolen, “Lawyer” [Updated Again]

| August 17, 2009

Okay, let’s play “one of these things is not like the other things,” Houston criminal-defense lawyer edition. Ready? John Floyd. Jack Carroll. James A. “Andy” Nolen. Don Becker. Tyler Flood. Wayne Hill. Which of these things just doesn’t belong? If you guessed “Andy Nolen”, you’re right.

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Kirk Bernard: Not a Thief?

| June 13, 2009

Sometime soon Washington personal injury attorney Kirk Bernard, or Susan L. Sipe of SLS Consulting, who claims responsibility for Bernard’s internet marketing, is going to google Bernard’s name. “Holy shit, what have I done?”, he’ll ask when he sees: Kirk Earned himself the coveted Asshat Lawyer of the Day award here at Defending People yesterday [...]

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Asshat Lawyer of the Day Kirk Bernard

| June 12, 2009

Washington personal injury lawyer Kirk Bernard. No editorializing required—Kirk makes it look so easy. (H/T Kevin O’Keefe via Twitter.) (More: Kirk Bernard is a Slime Ball.)

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Aggressive Criminal Lawyer? No, Thanks.

| March 8, 2009

Here are the Google results for: compassionate criminal lawyer: about 124,000 truthful -truth criminal lawyer: about 148,000 tough criminal lawyer: about 315,000 creative criminal lawyer: about 319,000 aggressive criminal lawyer: about 2,290,000 Granted, these are not all lawyer websites, but there’s a Michigan lawyer with the domain name AggressiveCriminalAttorney.net, and he’s not alone in advertising [...]

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