For Poll#3, WWL is going in a different direction. Given that it's playoff season and my beloved Lakers are soon to be champions, I thought we'd do the next poll bracket-style in several pieces. Firms will go head to head with another firm in each round, leading to an eventual winner.The question:
What's the best billboard/television advertising firm in town?
Criteria (you choose what's important and argue for it): litigation skill, extreme wealth, business model, most aggressive (effectively aggressive), best place to work, most embarrassing story, attorney's complete lack of shame, etc.
The door is open for nominations until Saturday at 9 a.m. (add your nominations to the comment section of this post).
The current nominees are:
Ed Bernstein
The 4 ft 10" Heavy Hitter
Golightly and Associates
Adam Kutner
The "Good Guy" Sam Harding
Jaws Jerry Wiese
Update: after some feedback, the nominations are open to firms on billboards and television--Plaintiff's firm or defense firm.
Reza Athari--the immigration guy
ReplyDeleteRichard Harris
ReplyDeleteMainor Eglet Cottle
Half-Priced Lawyers (Adam Stokes) because he has moving billboard buses making sure that he hits all areas of town (marketing). Richard Harris because his billboard honestly disclaims that the girl standing next to him is an "ACTOR" in white print (integrity).
ReplyDeleteThat Randolph Gold-whatever bankruptcy guy. He's on TV all the time.
ReplyDeleteHow about "Top Gun" on DI and Vally View...no idea about the guys name. If we are expanding to TV ads, I would like to nominate Frank Sorrentino and his brilliant still picture taken circa 1987.
ReplyDeleteWhat about those ticket-buster firm?
ReplyDeletePalmer and Associates. They have the 'Big Bark, Big Bite' billboards that have sprung up like crazy over the last week or so.
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ReplyDelete...because that what he does.
OH, now this is a GREAT idea, Legal Eagle. I laughed out loud!!
ReplyDeleteI gotta think about this one...I'll get back to you soon
In WWE fashion, do they get to use the props they use in their commercials? In that case, Jerry Wiese will be packing a dumbbell and Sam Harding will be deadly with his katana for splitting watermelons. Richard Harris can arrive with the girls from his ticket busters calendar.
ReplyDeleteCraig Kenny.
ReplyDeleteSure, he doesn't advertise using the same methods as "The THING on Exit 235" or Girls Direct to your Room!, but his low-key approach of hitting up every traffic scofflaw for whom he's done a "favor" for a referral has to count for something.
Plus, there's the kegger he throws for the Boyd/Law community every year, and if nothing else.. there's that smile of his....
C. Conrad Claus -- "Law is War!"
ReplyDeleteHe's huge with a shaved head, only wears black, and I have swear when I see him at court he is wearing combat boots with his suit. Fucking badass . . .
http://www.lawiswar.com/
Has Vannah been mentioned?
ReplyDeleteI nomiate the Purple DUi firm with the coptoon on the billboard. I know it's for Plaintiff's firm, but they are just as obnoxious aren't they?
ReplyDelete"We Sue Drunk Drivers"
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Mainor Eglett Cottle
& Ticket Buster (which is just a feeder for PI work...I mean a pink house and everything)
How about that "God" guy with the billboard off I-15 south of the 95? Regularly updated and prominent name placement.
ReplyDeleteI want to ask a question about Mr. Bernstein. Is it my imagination or did he go to b&w to disguise some recent hair color changes? I remember he was a lot more gray before. Now, in the b&w, his hair is all dark. Maybe it is just my imagination...
ReplyDeleteHands down, Lerner has the best commercial of all time.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbqvL5ncNzo
From a lawyer's perspective, Lerner cannot be anywhere near the top. As a business of generating business, he wins hands down. But as a lawyer who retains a shred of integrity and idealism, his commercials make me weep.
ReplyDeleteBTW, how does he stay afloat now that his litigation attorney has left?
People who meet me for the first time and find out I am a lawyer always ask me if I have ever met Glen Lerner or gone against him. Even without Powell to handle his litigation, Lerner must have one of the highest volume settlement mills in Vegas.
ReplyDeleteWhen and how did Lerner lose Powell?
ReplyDeleteWhere should I have read about this?
You should have known about this since last October if you've been paying attention to the Las Vegas Business Press Hint: Look @ the bottom of the page:
ReplyDelete"The Powell Litigation Group signed a 66-month, $1.56 million lease for 13,155 square feet of office space inside the Nevada Benefits Building at 9525 Hillwood Drive in Las Vegas. CB Richard Ellis' Randy Broadhead represented the lessor, Bormann Development Group. The reported average rent equals $1.80 per square foot."
Or, you could just go to Powell's website, where BTW, he indicates in the second paragraph of his bio that he "is a member of the highly prestigious Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum." And by "member" we mean "sucker." (Hey, Legal Eagle, need a co-blogger?)
My sources say that Powell may continue to provide litigation for Lerner, but is looking to ramp up his own firm dedicated to *gasp* actually providing full representation of his clients, as opposed to "You'll settle the case and like it!" Lerner.
Sure, Lerner can go back to being a settlement mill, but isn't that what got him in hot ethical water to begin with, prompting his hiring of Powell?
If Powell takes all the guns from Lerner, what is Lerner left with ... a tornado? a talking, sad car? elevator shoes?
She not local, and she's not billboard, but can Roni Lynn Deutch get a spot in this? I just love how forcefully she says her last name.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Roni Lynn Deutch should be included because she's national (although she's based in Sacramento). That would be like naming one of the 1-800 mesothilioma lawyers.
ReplyDeleteAlthough she could get honorable mention for having that sexy, raspy, Bonnie Tyler voice.
@2:00 p.m.
ReplyDeleteInteresting... I'd never thought of her voice as a "sexy, raspy, Bonnie Tyler voice"... I always thought of it as more of a "Greta Van Susteren, cocktail waitress edition" voice.
I would like to add the old classic television guy, Jan Paul Koch. Also, we should add Rob Graham, Anthony DeLuca, and G. Dallas Horton.
ReplyDeleteI nominate Jonathan J. Lord solely because of his website: http://www.legallord.com/
ReplyDeleteNot a single Chad Golightly nomination?! Madness! Maybe if he won this tournament, he could go on to bigger and better things... like wearing shirts that don't look so awkward on him.
ReplyDelete3:33 PM
ReplyDelete... or blinking.
Golightly was mentioned in the original post.
ReplyDeleteI vote for Golightly!!!! He recently learned to blink in his commercials and that is real progress.
ReplyDeleteI am also voting for Kutner because I don't want him to come after me with a golf club.
I'm not sure that I have been consciously noticing too many billboards, but anything on the first page of Google for a search like "las vegas personal injury" would seem like good candidates.
ReplyDelete"Bait & Tackle" is a Law Firm, right?
ReplyDeleteRight??
@June 11, 2009 11:00 AM
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Jaws Law
ReplyDelete+Half Price lawyers simply means Half A** Lawyers.
ReplyDelete@ 1:34 - How witty! Did you come up with that zinger all by yourself? Those half ass lawyers are probably raking in ten times what you are scraping by on at your bogus, paper pushing gig. Don't be jealous, it's unbecoming.
ReplyDeleteDon't be so defensive, Adam...
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