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re: How does one become a TV/Radio shyster attorney?
Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:16 pm to NIH
Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:16 pm to NIH
How difficult is it to be one of these guys who are pulling in huge money doing this? Do all of the people with these ads make big money? Obviously Morris Bart does, but what about the others? Where do these guys typically rank in their class?
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Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:17 pm to BamaHater
Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:21 pm to t00f
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Jim Harris of Harris, DeVille & Associates Inc., said Louisiana drivers can blame the state's litigious climate and high jury trial threshold of $50,000 for the out-of-control automobile insurance rates
Lol nah. How about a year prescriptive period? How about shitty drivers and crumbling infrastructure? Its laughable to say that a 50k threshold is the sole reason. And you people who think insurance companies will lower premiums if favorable legislation is passed are mindless sheep.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:32 pm to theronswanson
Then I suggest y'all allow the insurance companies to allow a jury for any amount and see what happens.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:32 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Dudley acts like such a smart arse on his commercials. I hope he is in the mood for Sonic soon.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 3:36 pm to Giantkiller
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1. Go to law school
2. Pass the bar.
3. Lose all integrity and have no shame.
4. Sell your soul
5. Profit.
Steps 3 and 4 are already covered under Step 1.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:19 pm to theronswanson
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Lol nah. How about a year prescriptive period? How about shitty drivers and crumbling infrastructure? Its laughable to say that a 50k threshold is the sole reason. And you people who think insurance companies will lower premiums if favorable legislation is passed are mindless sheep.
just like how health insurance hasn’t fallen despite tort reform. Most folk in Louisiana don’t even know tort reform has already happened with med mal.
I agree litigation costs can increase insurance but i don’t know how much, and I’m skeptical insurance premiums would decrease just Bc insurance companies can save some litigation costs.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:22 pm to soccerfüt
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You gotta get an easily remembered phone number because most (all?) of your potential clientele are morans
Oh the irony.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:35 pm to DustyDinkleman
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Oh the irony.
I wonder if there was a reason he italicized the misspelling. Hm.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:37 pm to NIH
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Morris BART probably hasn’t seen the inside of a courtroom since the 1990s.
I’m not sure he has ever tried a case. The rules prohibiting all forms of lawyer advertising were struck down in a US Supreme Ct decision in the 1970s when Bart was in law school. It seems to me he was advertising and running his settlement mill by 1979 or 80. He has probably spent the same on advertising as he has spent on political contributions to our elected judiciary.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:38 pm to Jake88
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How difficult is it to be one of these guys who are pulling in huge money doing this? Do all of the people with these ads make big money? Obviously Morris Bart does, but what about the others? Where do these guys typically rank in their class?
Gordon inherited a bunch of money from his dad getting on the tobacco suits in the 90s. Bart was the first lawyer in Louisiana to take advantage of advertising and things built from there, from what I've been told.
I imagine it's also easy to lose your arse if you try to swing a big ad budget on one big settlement or verdict.
Rank in class doesn't really matter. If you're working with a big ad budget it means you've had some success or have inherited it. No one is jumping out of law school and running TV ads or billboards.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:40 pm to biglego
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just like how health insurance hasn’t fallen despite tort reform. Most folk in Louisiana don’t even know tort reform has already happened with med mal.
People on this site STILL bring up the need for medical malpractice reform. It's ridiculous how uninformed people are on the subject. Suing a doctor in the state of Louisiana is a waste of money unless they've been caught fricking up dead to rights.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:43 pm to BamaHater
I was on the interstate the other day and as I was passing Gordon’s gigantic John 3:16 flag, it finally dawned on me. This is literally the sleaziest, dirtiest, low brow move I’ve ever dreamed I’d see a lawyer stoop to. The cross and Easter Bunny were one thing... the biblical quotes on billboards was another, although both are equally shameful.
But John 3:16?
It’s almost unbelievable. I honestly can’t even fathom how any of his antics are allowed. Is there any other lawyer in America who has somehow combined televanglist sleaze with the legal industry? How does any other lawyer pass by this shite and be like “Oh yeah, that’s ok..”?
But John 3:16?
It’s almost unbelievable. I honestly can’t even fathom how any of his antics are allowed. Is there any other lawyer in America who has somehow combined televanglist sleaze with the legal industry? How does any other lawyer pass by this shite and be like “Oh yeah, that’s ok..”?
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:45 pm to BamaHater
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shyster attorney
Oxymoron?
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:50 pm to NIH
None of them appear especially bright. One does not have to be bright to be conniving and have few ethics or morals. Many that aren’t born into it like Gordon was likely went the plaintiffs route because they couldn’t get a job with a firm doing honest work.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:54 pm to Giantkiller
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John 3:16
"And in the middle of calming the storm, Jesus was hit by a big truck."
Posted on 3/18/18 at 4:58 pm to Icansee4miles
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plaintiffs route because they couldn’t get a job with a firm doing honest work.
You do realize the tort system encompasses a lot more than fender benders, right? And even within that, you'd be surprised at how many middle class and upper middle class people will run to a PI attorney after a wreck.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 5:03 pm to NIH
I love how this board makes insurance companies and insurance defense attorneys the guardians of what is morally right and just in the legal world.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 5:07 pm to BamaHater
It doesnt hurt if your family leaves you a frickton of money to get going, true for Mo and McKernan
Posted on 3/18/18 at 5:10 pm to Dizz
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I love how this board makes insurance companies and insurance defense attorneys the guardians of what is morally right and just in the legal world.
I don't see that.
What makes ambulance chasers any better? I've got a friend who's basically a socialist, but lives in a 6 million dollar house, has offices here, in Hawaii and San Diego and still thinks he's morally right because he's taking on big business.
Yet, most of the businessmen are nowhere as wealthy as he.
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