Matthew Braynard did solid data analysis during the election contests. He has nothing to fear from Dominion and he is represented by attorneys unafraid of attorney table pounding. Bravo!
That’s The Way It’s Done
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Dominion sending him demand letters when he did not critique Dominion is a tell of some sort.
“I’ll see your P.R. stunt and raise you.”
Not being critical of Ms. Dhillon’s epic response. It is marvelous. But back in my day, we only had to write letters like that for judges and juries to see, not for posting on social media. How the legal world has changed!
It has been on a downhill slope Frank since I joined the legal circus in 1982. Hopefully no cause and effect there!
Don, that was my observation as well. I entered the mines only three years before you did. My Jurassic mindset still blames much of the decline on lawyers being allowed to advertise. Maybe that was only a symptom of an already-progressing disease. I don’t really claim to know the answer.
Advertising was definitely a step in the wrong direction. Also too many attorneys achieved notoriety by engaging in performance art rather than the practice of law. One Judge of my acquaintance opined recently that too many attorneys grew up now without ever being slapped in the mouth when they smarted off as a kid and that the levels of immature jerkiness in the profession has increased as a result.
still blames much of the decline on lawyers being allowed to advertise.
A dear cousin of mine told me the shysters advertising on late night TV had wrecked his personal injury practice. (He practices in a town of 5,000 and does a bit of everything). I cannot help but note though, that there must be about 1,700 working lawyers in the Genesee Valley if you exclude those employed by the government. The number who advertise (beyond a panel in the newspaper) could be counted on your fingers. Could their malign influence really extend that far?
Tip of the iceberg Art. People who now go to court, outside of the most mundane matters, find themselves bombarded with letters from law firms seeking to represent them. The term for that used to be barratry, since attorneys were forbidden to contact prospective clients. Just one more element in the transformation of the profession into a highly aggressive, money uber alles, means of earning a living.
“One Judge of my acquaintance opined recently that too many attorneys grew up now without ever being slapped in the mouth when they smarted off as a kid”
Don, tell your judge friend that such applies to WAY more people than just lawyers.
“still blames much of the decline on lawyers being allowed to advertise.”
Whenever we visit Chicago, we play the “Lawyer Billboard Counting Game”. We tally the following;
1. How far out do we see our first billboard for a Chicago lawyer?
2. Who has the most and how many exactly?
3 Total Lawyer billboards. (Sometimes you have to count quickly due to the traffic and the quantity.)
Great game, JFK! If you ever drive around Dallas/Fort Worth you may find another challenge in keeping up.