A Weasel By Any Other Name
August 25th, 2007 at 2:02 pm by CrankyThe Institute for Legal Reform has:
launched a new public awareness campaign highlighting the recent name change by Tennessee’s trial lawyer organization and the motives behind the coordinated effort now happening in at least 13 states. The SameLeopardNewSpots.com Web site criticizes the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, which has voted to call itself the Tennessee Association for Justice, for trying to conceal its identity from the public by changing its name.
Why? Good question.
“Because decades of abusing the civil justice system has driven their popularity into the ground, they are resorting to the oldest PR trick in the book: when your brand is tarnished, change your name.”
I detect a certain hostility towards trial lawyers. I think the mission statement will clear that up:
The mission of the ILR is to make America’s legal system simpler, fairer, and faster for everyone. It seeks to promote civil justice reform through legislative, political, judicial, and educational activities at the national, state, and local levels.
August 25th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
You know why sharks don’t eat lawyers, Gord-o?!
It’s common courtesy.
August 25th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Yep! I met a real, live got rich suing Big Tobacco lawyer. Landshark.
August 26th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Sunday Reading List 8/26/07…
I got home this morning at 1:30 after spending Saturday evening and night with hubby’s band, Show Time. They were playing HOT HOT HOT rock-n-roll, blues, country, music for the Carl Perkins Child Abuse Center fund-raiser at Natchez Trace State…