Intellectual Property Law

What Animal Is Your Lawyer?

By Marty Schwimmer

WSJ: "Provocative Lawyer Advertising: Fair or Foul?

To a large degree, the story focuses on Florida. The Sunshine State prohibits slogans, jingles and ?manipulative? visual depictions, among many other no-no?s. The Florida bar also has a thing about certain animals. Pit bulls are verboten (as was the advertisement pictured), and the bar has also stricken ads that used images of a ?tiger roaring without sound? and a ?shark in attack mode.?

We're sorta half-border collie, half-yellow lab. Smart, fun, but really vicious if you touch our client's rawhide.

Full post as published by Trademark Blog on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).