Comments on: Avvo lawyer-rating site slapped with class action

A lawyer-rating site that inexplicably gave convicted felons higher numeric scores than law school deans is, in a move that was probably entirely predictable, being sued.

[SteveDave2]

And maybe someone should teach declan about causality

Just because they cited the same examples doesn't mean they learned of them from you. Ergo, no need to cite to News.com

-SD-

[unknown unknown]

RE

Perhaps, but the substantial overlap out the number of lawyers being rated by Avvo certainly could make one question whether it was indeed a coincidence or borrowing the odd ratings CNet dug up.

[Walt Connery]

Ah....Yes....Music to my ears...

Lawyers suing lawyers. There's just something wonderfully wholesome and refreshing about that. Here's hoping they sue each other right into insolvency...;) I would love to see this develop into a trend nationally--they'd be so preoccupied with jilting, cheating, conning, and lying to each other that they'd leave the rest of us alone.

I'm entertaining the prospect of a class-action suit against class-action lawyers in the US (because they keep 98% of the cash they supposedly win for the class they pretend to represent.) But could I find a lawyer noble enough, honest enough, to do it? There's the rub.

[josephrot]

There's not much difference...

RE: << Lawyer-rating site slapped with class action suit >>

Frankly, the differences between convicted felons and most lawyers in today's society is such that they are both alike in most ways. There are pitifully few good lawyers.

And remember... judges are lawyers. There are pitifully few good judges.

[SteveDave2]

And what do you do?

I hate comments like this. They're so smug and self-important and yet are rarely based on any facts.

"most lawyers" - Let's play the word game. You said "most" meaning "the majority." Assuming I cut you as much slack as possible, you've likened at least 50.001% of lawyers in this country to "convicted felons." Not people that speed on the highway, or people that jaywalk, but convicted felons - rapists, murderers, burglars, and arsonists. How so. What exactly do "most lawyers" do that make them so despicable? And are you referring to tax attorneys, attorneys that represent unions, attorneys that represent the homeless (always pro bono), attorneys that try to get to the bottom of things like the firings in the justice department, attorneys that represent people in traffic violations? Which attorneys exactly are like convicted felons?

Name one GD fact you base this on. I work at a law firm and while I may not like every lawyer there (there are about 100), for the most part they are all decent human beings that love their families and kids and do everything they can to help their clients. Do you know any lawyers? How many? Enough to say that over 50% are as bad as convicted felons?

F you. When I was a software engineer I knew a lot less decent people than I know at the firm I work at - people that did the bare minimum, criticized management all the time without ever providing a solution to anything they complained about, and thought of everyone else as being completely beneath them. Certainly not the majority, not even a large percentage, but more than the number of lawyers I know that I think are bad eggs.

Please reply and enlighten all of us as to your vast experience with lawyers and how exactly they are like convicted felons.

[dunnsanfrancisco]

It's completely reasonable

I can understand why Awo execs and board members scored higher than some Supreme Court justices. After all, none of the Awo execs or board members elevated George Bush to the presidency against the popular vote of the American people. Do so much surely be some serious strikes against one's career.

[dunnsanfrancisco]

It's completely reasonable

I can understand why Awo execs and board members scored higher than some Supreme Court justices. After all, none of the Awo execs or board members elevated George Bush to the presidency against the popular vote of the American people. Doing so much surely be some serious strikes against one's career.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Up she blows

Ok then mr murdok you have made that stupid mistake, you've showen your colours to soon.
So you want to make the markets go up and don't want this fairness thing.
I suppose this is so you can goood up so more millionares and bring back your people.
No chance your not very clever judging by your actions and i'll just absorb all your new millionares.
They'll be !mine
And IBM is edging closer to me and i know Japan won't be far behind.
!Oh year
Ummmmmmm! what happens next hey mr murdoc
Well i'll tell you one thing now that i have accomadation and have wipped your doctors arss and have a mr Brown on the way plus have sused all this world out accept a black area in China to which i have no desire to know.
I will be working on taking that unfair sick pay out the picture and doing some more work.
!oh year mr murdok like you can't imagine with that yellow triangle with that bully eye.
!oh year you know i don't tell lies
All hail the all knowing eye of our neighbours.
Go go earth and stars battle machine thing with loads of power men.
Oh Year the US works no matter what the politics shame about this Blair thing.

[BrandonEubanks]

wildchild_plasma_gyro is a good moniker

for you because we can't understand what you are trying to say
(I scarcely doubt you know). Lets break it down:

wildchild-your post seems to be a little off the deep end
plasma-you seem to be a little hot headed and disconnected
gyro-direction and flow don't seem to mean anything to you.

If I recall, you have posted several comments like this and it
would be much appreciated if you stop. This is a forum for if
not inteligent then at least coherent discussion.

[BrandonEubanks]

Makes sense to me

As much as I enjoy watching stuff like this unfold for the lunacy, I
have to say that on the surface this makes sense because there is a
real potential for damage to lawyers and their enterprise due to an
arbitrary rating system. Perhaps they are hinging on a few isolated
incidents but, if this is a systematic problem then the company
should be held liable.