Comments on Personal injury lawyer blogs injury victims' names in hope they call his office. | Real Lawyers Have Blogs

blog@TurkewitzLaw.com (Eric Turkewitz) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:39:00 -0800

What a lousy excuse he gives. Under his theory, he could literally follow the ambulance to the hospital to protect the victim from the insurance adjuster.

kevin@lexblog.com (Kevin) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:29:52 -0800

Eric, guess that's why one reader has called Meyers conduct as Ambulance Chasing 2.0.

nycityboy1234@yahoo.com (Bozo D. Clown) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:34:20 -0800

What a load of smug crap. So the guy writes about people in the hopes that they will come upon his website and then hire him as a lawyer; so what? How is someone harmed who is writtne about in this way?

Presumably, he writes "Joe Blow was seriously injured in a car accident on Fourth and Main yesterday. At least one witness reports that the produce truck blew right through a stop sign and plowed right into him. Mr. Blow may well have a cause of action in negligence, not only against the driver of the truck, but against Acme Bananas on a respondeat superior theory."

How does this blog entry hurt Joe Blow? It's not like someone called him up in his hospital bed to solicit legal business -- he won't even come across it unless he or someone who knows him is "googling" his name, to look for discussion of him (or, probably, discussion of the accident). This isn't even a victimless crime -- it certainly has no victim, but it also doesn't rise to the level of misconduct contemplated by the Model Rules.

I am a defense attorney who has nothing to do with personal injury, so I have no personal or professional axe to grind.

kevin@lexblog.com (Kevin) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:31:55 -0800

Bozo, your daughter is killed in a car accident, dying after 25 days in a coma. Collecting items written about her and perhaps written by her after she has died through Google you run into 20 lawyer blogs from 20 lawyers who have copied your deceased daughter's accident report details into their blog for the sole purpose of improving their search engine rankings. The lawyers say they blogged the details of your daughter's death in the desire to help her but that's not ttrue as they just blog such accidents every so often to improve their search engine rankings. How do you feel?

I would be repulsed at best. And it's that type of repulsive conduct that gives lawyers a bad name.

Practicing lawyers are at risk to lose their sense of what is socially acceptable conduct. I am afraid that when I practiced as a plaintiff's trial lawyer I may have been tempted to do this sort of thing. But having been outside the practice for almost 10 years now, I can't imagine doing so.

kevin@lexblog.com (Kevin) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:29:14 -0800

And so that lawyers do not get me wrong, blogs are an excellent way to market a personal injury law practice. I represented injury victims as a practicing lawyer for 17 years. LexBlog has some excellent lawyers doing a wonderful job with their personal injury law blogs. It's an honor for us to be of service to them.

A well done personal injury law blog is an excellent way to market your firm and further enhance your reputation as a trusted and reliable authority as a plaintiff's trial lawyer and advocate for injured people. Shamelessly putting up names of injury victims on the Internet does nothing to enhance one's reputation.

ronvmiller@aol.com (Ron Miller) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:34:43 -0800

Actually, going to the bloggers point, this is a business. And the general public seeing lawyers behave in an unbecoming way, it kills our credibility even further with juries. Read David Ball on juror preconceptions as it is.

Our course, every business - including the business of law - should be conducted with a high degree of professionalism and respect for any situation. Stockbrokers should not call clients who they see are heirs in the obits either, for example, even though they may not be a ethical rule prohibiting it. But if the blogger wants to look at if from a purely business standpoint, fine. It is bad for business.

friendlysubmit@gmail.com (Tom St. Louis) — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:33:21 -0800

This kind of idea simply drags every personal injury lawyer down, or every lawyer for that matter. Honestly, by posting the â€˜potential clientâ€™sâ€™ name in his blog, did it really helped to convince the family or any â€˜concernedâ€™ individuals out there to hire their legal services? Whose bright idea was that anyway? Iâ€™m hoping that it came from one of Mike Meyerâ€™s overzealous marketing consultant and Mike just happily pushed through at that idea. Well if not, Kevin and the otherâ€™s (including myself) reactions should pretty much send a clear message out there that this is definitely one of those things a self-respecting personal injury lawyer shouldnâ€™t do.

For the meanwhile it seems that these isnâ€™t a SOP for lawyer blogs, but imagine if every kind of lawyer does this kind of â€˜baitâ€™. Instead of squirming, itâ€™s enough to literally make me puke violently till I have nothing left.
Itâ€™s a bad idea from the start and every lawyer should realize this for the public sake and their own.

friendlysubmit@gmail.com (Tom St. Louis) — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:38:14 -0800

This kind of idea simply drags every personal injury lawyer down, or every lawyer for that matter. Honestly, by posting the ‘potential client’s’ name in his blog, did it really helped to convince the family or any ‘concerned’ individuals out there to hire their legal services? Whose bright idea was that anyway? I’m hoping that it came from one of Mike Meyer’s overzealous marketing consultant and Mike just happily pushed through at that idea. Well if not, Kevin and the other’s (including myself) reactions should pretty much send a clear message out there that this is definitely one of those things a self-respecting personal injury lawyer shouldn’t do.

For the meanwhile it seems that these isn’t a SOP for lawyer blogs, but imagine if every kind of lawyer does this kind of ‘bait’. Instead of squirming, it’s enough to literally make me puke violently till I have nothing left.
It’s a bad idea from the start and every lawyer should realize this for the public sake and their own.

ps: sorry for the repost, the first one was a mess.