http://www.admedia.com/blog/2010/12/lawyer%e2%80%99s-victory-for-free-speech-in-advertising/ Everything Advertising Under One Roof! Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.admedia.com/blog/2010/12/lawyer%e2%80%99s-victory-for-free-speech-in-advertising/#comment-89 Twitter Trackbacks for Lawyer’s Victory for Free Speech in Advertising | AdMedia [admedia.com] on Topsy.com Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:44:41 +0000 http://blog.admedia.com/2010/12/13/lawyer%e2%80%99s-victory-for-free-speech-in-advertising/#comment-89 [...] Lawyer’s Victory for Free Speech in Advertising | AdMedia blog.admedia.com/2010/12/13/lawyer%E2%80%99s-victory-for-free-speech-in-advertising/ – view page – cached Every profession benefits from marketing, but some career-oriented organizations frown on the practice for various reasons. Doctors and lawyers in particular are subject to this ridiculous stigma that conducting advertising campaigns is somehow unethical or amateurish. The state of New York went so far as to craft special regulations aimed at television ads for legal services, or at least,… Read moreEvery profession benefits from marketing, but some career-oriented organizations frown on the practice for various reasons. Doctors and lawyers in particular are subject to this ridiculous stigma that conducting advertising campaigns is somehow unethical or amateurish. The state of New York went so far as to craft special regulations aimed at television ads for legal services, or at least, they tried to. The proposed legislation would have been a blanket ban on a wide variety of lucrative tactics, such as incorporating client testimonials, using nicknames to indicate the firm’s success rate, parodies of judges, entertaining depictions of attorney-client relations, and other supposedly “misleading” practices. View page [...]

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