Legal Marketing & PR

Judges Should Go On ?Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader??

By Mark Merenda

Attorney Jim Reed of Ziff, Weiermiller, Hayden & Mustico in Elmira, New York sent me the following news item yesterday:

New Advertising Rules For Attorneys Found Unconstitutional

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? New rules governing lawyer advertising that took effect in New York
on Feb. 1 cannot be enforced because they violate the First Amendment right to free
speech, according to a ruling issued today by a federal court in New York. Continue reading…

Back in March, I called the people who drafted New York?s new advertising rules morons and in another post said the rules appeared to be unconstitutional. Now, how is that any idiot on the street (that would be me) can see this, but a committee of judges in New York’s appellate division who are charged with writing the ethical rules governing the state’s lawyers….can?t?

You can read the decision here.

Full post as published by Mark Merenda’s SmartBlog on July 24, 2007 (boomark / email).