How do you find a lawyer in Los Angeles? You could try asking a trusted friend for a recommendation. Or you could simply drive along Wilshire Boulevard, where so many personal injury lawyers now hawk their services with outrageous, eye-catching billboards, it’s a miracle that the Miracle Mile isn’t gridlocked by fender benders.
“WE DIDN’T MEET BY ACCIDENT,” blares one for the Pirnia Law Group, featuring a goateed hipster in sunglasses who looks more like an extra out of Reservoir Dogs than an attorney. (In case anyone misses the Hollywood allusion, there’s another billboard that proclaims the firm is like “‘ENTOURAGE’ MEETS ‘SUITS’”). Yet another references last fall’s Bernie Sanders meme, with Sanders bundled in a parka (“DON’T GET BERNED BY INSURANCE COMPANIES”). Then there’s the one from an employment attorney that inquires, “HOSTILE BOSS?” over a background of what looks like blood spatter. Who are these attorneys channeling Better Call Saul’s Saul Goodman? Ladies and gentleman of the jury, we present: Sweet James, Esq. and Uncle Ardy, Esq.
“Some advertising that you see for lawyers does make you scratch your head,” notes law professor Adam Winkler, who teaches legal ethics and constitutional law at UCLA. “It probably hasn’t done a lot to help the image of the bar.”
Up until about 45 years ago, it was actually illegal for lawyers to advertise. But in the early 1970s, two UCLA law graduates, Leonard Jacoby and Stephen Meyers, dared to hold an open house in a Van Nuys...
Read Full Story: https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/personal-injury-lawyers-billboards/
Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.