Quick Hits, Ambulance Chasing Edition

Still playing catch-up after Austin, but a couple of quick related points:

1) As I’ve said before, I can’t stand most “law shows,” but I really like Better Call Saul. It gets the mundanities of practice close to right, and even featured a disciplinary hearing. One of my Nerd Friends, before she became my Nerd Friend, used to blog about the ethics of Better Call Saul, but her blog, sadly, appears to be offline.

We’ll have to make do with Kim Wexler’s Ethics Training, which is every bit as stilted and awful as ethics CLE can be, but remember it’s fiction, it’s arguably about New Mexico rules from the early 2000s, rely on it at your peril. The new season just started. I’m a little behind, so no spoilers, OK?

2) While I am sure the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation would just as soon do away with the SCR 20:7.3 requirement that it be sent a copy of every bit of “advertising material” (which under the Rules doesn’t mean all ads, just “solicitations” of people known to be in need of services). But OLR should also be excited it’s not Florida, where regulators need to approve ads, apparently not just for compliance but for bad taste. This tidbit caught my attention, for the proposition that, I guess in Florida, the difference between an ad that is misleading and one that is not is a Post-It note:

This time the firm added the image of a yellow “sticky note” with the words “not really” and a further disclaimer that the image of the rushing ambulance with flashing lights is “not based on actual events.”

The article was silent on whether “j/k lol” would be sufficient. In any case, Saul Goodman, were he not a fictional character within a fictional character, probably would be relieved he didn’t practice in Florida.

(h/t Nerd Friend Brian Tannebaum)