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NJ Supreme Court Allows Advertising in Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers

By Larry Bodine, Esq.

pThe New Jersey Supreme Courtnbsp;ruled today that strongit is ethical for lawyers to advertise in Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers /stronglistings -- striking a blow for lawyer's freedom of speech./p pVisit stronga href="http://tinyurl.com/5xpufk"http://tinyurl.com/5xpufk/a /strongto read the 22-page ruling./p pstrongThe ruling vacates the notoritious Opinon 39/strong of the committee on Attorney Advertising, which ruled in ruled in July 2006 that advertising by lawyers with designation ldquo;Super Lawyersrdquo; or ldquo;Best Lawyersrdquo; is prohibited as a form of unethical comparative advertising that is also likely to create an unjustified expectation about the results the lawyer can achieve. See a href="http://www.lawmarketing.com/pages/articles.asp?Action=Articleamp;ArticleCategoryID=7amp;ArticleID=538"ldquo;Super Lawyersrdquo; and ldquo;Best Lawyersrdquo; Designations Banned in New Jersey/a./p pThe high court ruling reverses on of the a href="http://blog.larrybodine.com/2006/07/articles/current-affairs/nj-stupidly-outlaws-super-lawyers-and-best-lawyers/"most asinine ethics rulings ever/a issued by the troglodyte Committee on Attorney Advertising. As I stated on July 23, 2006, tstronghis committee should be disbanded, or given the duty of counting toothpicks in a box or rolling string into balls./strong/p pThe Supreme Court backed the findings of a Special Master who reported on June 18, 2008 that ldquo;advertising by attorneys [is] a form of commercial speech protected by the First Amendment and may not be subjected to blanket suppression.rdquo;/pimg src="http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/LarryBodineLawMarketingBlog/~4/488028149" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).