Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Justice Injury Lawyers v. G. Dallas Horton (Round 1 continues)

by Beantown

Justice Injury Lawyers
“Injured? Get Justice” is just one of the many slogans splayed across the website for Justice Injury Lawyers; and anyone enjoying their nightly Family Guy in Las Vegas has no doubt seen at least one JIL commercial (while JIL’s website link to commercials appears to be down, at least ten different variations grace YouTube).

Here's our personal favorite:




Formed in 2007, JIL’s four currently managing partners are: Bradley S. Mainor, A Professional Corporation; Eglet & Eglet, A Professional Corporation; Robert M. Adams, A Professional Corporation; and Robert W. Cottle, Ltd. Oh yeah, and Robert T. Eglet is the Resident Agent. I wonder if JIL has any relation to some other attorneys in town?

When WWL reported the connection between JIL and Mainor Eglet Cottle as a “well known secret in the Vegas community” back in March ’08, one anonymous poster explained: “Mainor [Eglet Cottle] takes million dollar cases and the other firm [JIL] takes everything else.” In other words, JIL is the redneck love child the Med-Mal Goodfellas (known in the back alleys of Fourth Street as Bobbie T., Tracy E., Mr. Cottle-r, Bob “Tiny” Adams, and The Main-Man B-rad). No word on which one of them carried JIL to term, but top bets are on Tiny.

Did someone spill a 50 gallon vat of sulfuric acid on little Billy? What a shame – but don’t worry, Mainor Eglet Cottle will fight for you. Wait. You say it was only a Dixie Cup of hot chocolate? You’re one the wrong floor – 862-HELP is four levels down. Good luck.

G. Dallas Horton
The Notorious B.I.G. Dallas Horton (website available here) made his grand entrance to WWL in March of this year, when WWL reported about his apparent botanophobia and willingness to frivolously burden the Supreme Court of Nevada over a flowerbed. (post available here) In response to the posting, one person commented: “Anybody who takes a case like this is desperate and/or stupid,” while another said: “Even Dallas is smart enough to know this case had no merit.” Then, when WWL reported that Horton just recently took down an $8.9M judgment, more than a few posters jumped at the chance to undercut Horton’s involvement in the actual trial itself and lend credit to Bobbie Vannah [my personal favorite quote: “Horton is an asshole AND and idiot. Vannah's just an asshole.”]. (For additional insinuations against GDH and GDH's replies, check out his firm's entry on the RipOff Report) Even with the Ken-doll haircut and the spray on tanner, can G. get no love?? Apparently not.

G. Dallas does have a decent television advertising presence, but not many of his commercials have made it online. The only one we could find was on Crazy Motion (available here) and that ad just features gliding photographs of G. Dallas in earlier ads.

According to its website, G. Dallas Horton & Associates “is AV rated with an AV rated attorney” – an interesting boast given that martindale.com currently sizes Horton up as being only “BV-rated.” Apparently, Horton’s relatively recent raid on Lewis Brisbois (taking LBBS partner Dave Thomas & LBBS associate Christian Smith) and addition of long-timer Monte Hall, Esq. (Bar No. 239), to the mix have given G. the street cred to bolster his boasting.

[Final Writer’s Log: Despite extensive research, I have been unsuccessful in discovering what the “G.” stands for . . . Tony The Tiger says it’s “grrrrrrrrrreat,” but I’m not buying it.]

27 comments:

  1. As soon as I saw this match up, I started singing Justice Injury Laywers, 862-HELP. That jingle is going to haunt the rest of my day.

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  2. Those flower beds are a menace. You got my vote, G.

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  3. My apologies for getting Justice Injury Lawyers' phone number wrong...

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  4. I don't think that's G.'s picture

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  5. G. Dallas Horton is a real character. He is like a Saturday Night Live parody of a personal injury lawyer. He is quite entertaining in court and as sleazy as they come. Anyone who hires him deserves what he or she gets.

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  6. You have no clue what you are talking about with JIL. By the way....who is Bobbie T.? Do you mean Bobbie E.?

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  7. And let's not forget how G. Dallas likes to refer to himself in the third person - the true hallmark of self deluded idiot.

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  8. pic is now G Dallas--were led astray by google.

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  9. @ 11:13 a.m.

    "Bobbie T." = Robert T. Eglet. And please elaborate on why MEC felt the need to establish a second firm (JIL), if not to handle a different caliber case. Enlighten me...

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  10. peoplefinder.com shows his first name as Gregory.

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  11. 11:04 is spot on.


    B.I.G. Dallas is a character in court. The first time I ran into him was in L&M, and I was instantly impressed by how he would just stand up and randomly and offer legal advice to the judge and the parties while awaiting his motion - apropos of nothing. Who doesn't love that?!

    There have got to be far more colorful anecodotes out there, so let's hear 'em.

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  12. A certain local chiropractor has a scar on his forearm which perfectly matches the upper and lower teeth of G. Dallas. Seems the two had a brawl and G. Dallas bit the good doctor. Then there is the parking lot security video of Horton's law office showing G. Dallas pummelling the sigificant other of one of his female staff when the gentleman had the audacity to come down to see his lady during work hours. Horton's former associate, seven foot Richard Sipan, holds the guy while G. Dallas works him over. This dude fights dirty and has my vote. Justice Injury Lawyers? Pussies...

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  13. Most people don't know this, but G. Dallas had a brief acting career prior to entering law. This is him in perhaps his biggest role, in the classic Blazing Saddles.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2W1lK7P-I

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  14. While externing for a judge in the RJC during law school, I had the pleasure of reading a brief G wrote pertaining to a client who had injured his "member" (my word, not G's) during an unfortunate incident involving a hotel toilet. The guy has a sense of humor. The claim was ridiculous and frivolous, but the brief was hilarious. G gets my vote.

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  15. It started at 9:40. It has continued all damn day. My husband is begging me to stop. But I'm still singing Justice Injury Lawyers, 862-HELP.

    But after reading the comments above, I am quite taken with G's way of doing things. I wish he had a catchy slogan that I could sing to my cats...

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  16. I'll be so glad when this firm 1 vs. firm 2 crap is over. At one time, this was a fun blog to read, now these "battles" have just made it immature and stupid.

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  17. Anonymous 9:13 pm - he wasn't going for the laugh. He believes the crap he writes.

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  18. Speak for yourself. I can't wait til my firm is up. Going to crush the competition. We've got a tough first round, but I if we make it out of there, I like our chances after that. I see us becoming a cinderella story. All the associates at the firm are stoked.

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  19. I like these Firm 1 vs. Firm 2 polls.

    Maybe the next poll should be "did you like the last poll."

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  20. I'm confused. I thought this poll was about advertising and billboards. When did it become so personal and why is there such a negative spin on JIL? JIL performs a legitimate needed service. This blog used to be full of good information but lately it is just dripping with spite and hatred towards any firm or attorney that it can rip apart.

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  21. I hope everyone knows that anything I write about a law firm / lawyer is usually tongue in cheek, and not in mean spirit. Seriously though, if you can't laugh at a law firm that calls itself "Justice Injury Lawyers," or a lawyer that nicknames himself "The Heavy Hitter," what can you laugh at?

    I doubt there's a city in the country that doesn't have it's own equivalent to G. Dallas Horton. And in each of those cities, everyone makes fun of those attorneys both publicly and privately... and then we all cry a little when we find out how much they make.

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  22. Congratulations to GDH on the come from behind victory.

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  23. Dallas stomps down JIL:

    JIL (66 votes; 37%)
    G. Dallas (108 votes; 62%)

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