The wild world of lawyers' TV ads

time was if you needed an attorney you'd check the yellow pages. no longer, as connor knighton tells us, for the nation's attorneys these days it pays to advertise. at hyatt legal services we took the fear out of legal fees. i've decided to call a lawyer. if you've turned on a television in the past four decades, they called me the car wreck cowboy because i last so big insurance companies you've seen attorneys call me. it's just that easy: advertising ad nauseam, dui, dui, traffic citation. let the lawman take care of that situation. given just how prevalent they are, it's hard to imagine that there was a time when legal ads were illegal: 459 cash. in the old days it was unethical to advertise. the bar could come after you and take away your law license, and it was also a crime. when texas attorney jim adler opened up his own firm in 1973, he wasn't allowed to advertise for new clients. but that all changed. four years later. nearing the end of its term, the supreme court today issued a number of major decisions. it ruled that lawyers may advertise. in 1977, the landmark bates versus state bar of arizona case involved a small print ad that a phoenix firm had dared to place in the local newspaper. it opened the floodgates for a big shift in the legal profession. i'm better than a mean lawyer. i'm jim adler the tough, smart lawyer. attorneys like adler began making commercials, explosions, fires and electrocutions. it wasn't a decision he made lightly, would it be proper? what would my friends say? did you get some pushback from your colleagues? oh yeah, i was a pariah. people couldn't believe that i advertised. tough texas lawyers, investigators, high tik, but other couldn't believe whatever. how well, it is the money you deserve, the money you need. it was amazing. i went on one channel and the phone started ringing off the hook. i'm jim adler, the texas hammer. today, jim adler and associates has more than 300 employees across texas. most insurance companies won't pay without a fight. what do i do? his advertising budget has grown as well. i hit hard. adler's texas hammer ads are big productions. don't let them tok. he creates versions that are in english. we stand tough and carry a big, big hammer call. now listen, friends. cargo and martial tv advertising in the united states for lawyers is a billion dollar a year. industry alone and i will work for you. attorney tricia rich works with law firms to ensure their advertisements meet ethics requirements. i'll fight for you. she sees the ads as providing a service for most americans who are just hiring a lawyer once or twice in their life. they often don't know lawyers, and so lawyer advertising has helped connect a whole lot of americans to legal help when they need it in a wreck. and thinking about dealing with the insurance company itself- stop people, there's plenty of help to choose from. i'll always be here to protect this land from the insurance giants. winter is over, competition for clients has gotten more and more fierce over the years, and so it really uh incentivizes a lot of lawyers to get flashier and flashier with their advertising. brian wilson, aka the texas law hawk towns of justike, was born in 1986. someone just called me, which means he grew up in a world in which legal advertising was commonplace. jim adler be uh standing on a semi and he'd have a hammer- he'd break something. the more and more amped up he got, the more and more i liked it, and so that's kind of what i was thinking. what if i go way over the top with a video? thanks, santa wilson's over-the-top ads feature jet skis and motorcycles, but- the most notable difference from his predecessors- he's never paid a cent for a television commercial. his ads are all online. happy holidays. most of my clients are my age or younger. i will usually not get somebody in their 60s. they usually have not seen my videos, but millions of people have. wilson's ads went viral on youtube. it's funny what people want an attorney. i think that they're gonna get that. they're two sides to me and that's why i include in my videos at least one segment, usually where i'm toking normally. so call brian wilson. all legal advertising, whether it's online or on air- don't take a chance with your future- has to comply with restrictions put in place by individual state bar associations. in the land of kentucky, daryl isaacs, the hammer, makes the fight for justike. the kentucky bar deals with their hammer, while the alabama bar regulates. i'm mike slocum, alabama hammer. there's a weird amount of hammers, including a second one. i'm jim adler, the texas ham, and i'm phil adler, the texas hammer. if you're the same family, sell the hammers, double the justike. to date, adler says his firm has spent more than a hundred million dollars on advertising. it works, which means these types of ads aren't slowing down anytime soon. i thought so you.

Ridiculous Personal Injury Advertisements

don't urinate on my leg and tell me it's raining. insurance companies, we're going to court. okay, let's get this party started. [Music]. call me and let's tok about size. lower the hammer, Stanley. four, five, nine cash. four, five, nine cash. I mean, I get it. personal injury law is so competitive with so many lawyers that you have to do something crazy in order to get people's attention. size matters. the bigger your check, the better. I hammer insurance companies for the biggest checks. damages from everyone to blame. I do more to get you more. I don't stop hammering until the size of your check satisfies you. I'm Jim Adler, the Texas hammer. when stingy insurance companies don't pay up, I get leaner than a junkyard dog. I don't growl or bark, I bite. the hammer is also a dog that bites what was on that guy's shirt. and then there's this: rip the highlights off insurance companies to get you the biggest cash award. I'm Jim. I love to play raw. that video was awesome. now, once we start practiking law, we lawyers have something huge: that we can lose our reputation. most lawyers are very protective of their reputation. these guys trying to get an insurance company to send you money when you're hurt that'll change a car wreck into a nightmare who knew I know. or try to get an insurance company to say no, I don't feel like either of them know. I'm attorney Rob Levine, the heavy hitter, cuz we're Siegel and SoLoMo. see the heavy hitters. attorney Jeff night, the heavy hitter. Martin Hart of the Missouri. the heavy hitters. the heavy hitters are the way to go. go for 5 or 100. the heavy hitter is the one for you. go money hundred long one doo doo doo. I was driving down the road just the other day. [Music]. a free 15-minute call can get you compensation for your injuries. call 1-800 victim to call Seagal and wax and get the money you deserve. why is the tiger vomiting money? call Seagal and wax. cause now, I'm not a pi lawyer, I'm an employment lawyer. I personally don't know anybody who does commercials. they just don't seem necessary in today's Internet age. but I want to tok to my buddy, Sean, who is a personal injury lawyer, and ask him why his pi colleagues keep making these tacky commercials. Sean doesn't make commercials but his marketing is super classy and his website is light years ahead of the competition in terms of SEO and he gives plenty of clients. so he's the guy to ask. [Music]. let me Shawn thanks for being in my video. certainly I'm just gonna fly into it. why do personal injury lawyers in partikular make such tacky commercials? I think I have some ideas. first of all, I think they're compensating for some shortcoming personality-wise a lot of these guys. you know they're kind of lacking. but I think what these attorneys are doing is they're taking advantage of public perception. they're saying: well, look, you know, the public thinks that a lawyer needs to come in and be hyper aggressive, over-the-top, to the point that that's gonna somehow, you know, get them more money. and it's just not the truth. so they see the guy who's waving the biggest hammer and he is necessarily, you know, the one who's gonna get the best result. it just doesn't work that way. you know, the, the guys who are a little more subtle, a little more, you know, legal minded, who are thinking carefully and plotting the the course of a case, are gonna be the ones who get the best results. and I think some of these commercials are designed really to just play off of those stereotypes that you have. a loud and boisterous, your reputation is what carries the day, and good defense lawyers- they know the difference, don't have to go for all the flash in the zing. the PI lawyers in partikular have such terrible- it's terrible- tacky commercials. they do. you know, if I, if I, you know- brag about you know these massive jury verdicts, then the public is going to think that I'm the best you know lawyer out there, which is not true. no, we're now, you know, I mean personal injury lawyers. it's like a joke, you know. it's like a societal joke, where these are the bottom feeder, you know, trying to spoon ambulance-chasing people and it's unfortunate, you know, but maybe it works for them. i, I personally don't get it. I see some of these videos and I just laugh. I think it's a joke, but it, you know, maybe it works. I don't know. we got the music - I know like much it kind of digging it. I think it just cut in right right now. that's the only thing. thanks for being in the video. all right, yeah, no problem. and now the worst personal injury commercial I have ever seen: [Music], [Music]. it's a strong power of a heavy hitter, what? [Music] [Applause], [Music]. [Applause] [Music].

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>>. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. I WAS FIVE MILES AWAY FROM THAT BAR, PLAYING POKER WITH HIS FRIEND, MR BIRD, THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER. YEAH, THAT'S IT. I REST MY CASE. >>. ALL RIGHT JURORS, YOU'VE HEARD OPENING STATEMENTS FROM BOTH THE DEFENSE AND THE PROSECUTION: [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ]. MR DOUGLAS, YOU MAY NOW CALL YOUR FIRST WITNESS. >>. THE PROSECUTION CALLS GREGORY SHARPE TO THE STAND. [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] >>. HOLD ON, EXCUSE ME, MR DOUGLAS. HAS ANYONE EVER TOLD YOU THAT? -- WELL, FRANKLY, YOU HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EYELASHES. [ LAUGHTER ] >>. THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. >>. I MEAN THIS CAN'T BE THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE HEARING THIS RIGHT. [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] >>. IT'S NOT YOUR HONOR [ LAUGHTER ] >>. WOW, [ LAUGHTER ], WHAT A PICKLE TO BE YOU, HUH [ LAUGHTER ] WALKING AROUND TOWN BRINGING SPRING WHEREVER YOU GO. >>. YOUR HONOR, CAN WE CALL THE WITNESS, PLEASE? >> OF COURSE, BAILIFF. >>. DO YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND -- NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. WOW, [ LAUGHTER ]. UM, I'M SORRY, IT'S JUST UM, I'M LOSING MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT. >>. MR SHARP, WHERE WERE YOU ON THE NIGHT OF THE 7TH? >>? LIKE, I TOLD THE COPS, IT WAS POKER NIGHT AND I WAS PLAYING POKER WITH MY BUDDIES >> INCLUDING MR BIRD. >> YEAH, HE WAS THERE. >>. SO YOU ARE GOING TO LOOK ME IN THE EYE, THESE EYES, AND TELL YOU HE WAS WITH YOU THAT NIGHT, ALL NIGHT >>. I UM WELL -- >> ALL NIGHT. >> IT WAS POKER >>. MR SHARP, WAS IT THEN? [ LAUGHTER ] >> UM WELL, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY? [ LAUGHTER ]? >>. I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ME -- >> COME ON, MAN >> AND TELL ME THE TRUTH. [ LAUGHTER ]. >> HE WASN'T WITH ME. HE'S WAS ALWAYS tokING ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE. >> COME ON, MAN. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. >> OBJECTION. WHAT IS THIS WITH THE EYELASHES? I'M APPALLED BY THE PROSECUTION HERE. >> APPALLED OR JEALOUS? [ LAUGHTER ] >> APPALLED. THIS IS NOT FAIR. >> FINE. THE JURY WILL DO THEIR BEST TO NOT BE INFLUENCED BY THE PROSECUTION'S GORGEOUS INVITING LASHES [ LAUGHTER ], AND THEY WILL ALSO DISREGARD THE FACT THAT THE DEFENSE'S LASHES ARE CLUMPY AND UNREMARKABLE. [ LAUGHTER ] >> FINE. THANK YOU, MR SHARP. WHEN YOU WERE QUESTIONED BY POLICE, YOU STATED THAT MR BIRD JOINED YOU FOR POKER NIGHT AT YOUR APARTMENT. [ LAUGHTER ]. IN FACT, HE CAME TO YOUR PLACE EARLY TO HELP YOU GET UP. YOU EVEN HAD LEFTOVER BEERS. YOU BROUGHT THAT NIGHT. [ LAUGHTER ]. NOW, I'M SORRY, BUT -- MY GOD. [ LAUGHTER ]. OKAY, NOW HE IS DIRECTLY INFLUENCING THE JURY. >> THAT'S RIDICULOUS. YOUR HONOR, PERMISSION TO APPROACH THE BENCH? >>. WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO VERY, VERY MUCH [ LAUGHTER ]. OH, BOTH OF YOU. >>. I CAN GET YOU DISBARRED FOR THIS, MANIPULATING A JURY. [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ]. I'VE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE SO BLATANTLY DISREGARD -- [ LAUGHTER ], SO BLATANTLY DISREGARD PROtokOL IN SUCH A -- [ LAUGHTER ]. OH, MY UM THERE. -- [ BREATHES HEAVILY ]. THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT YOU. MAYBE IT'S YOUR UNORTHODOX METHOD. MAYBE IT'S THE WAY YOU CARRY YOURSELF ♪♪♪. [ LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE ].

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I'm Ryan Harper. I've done thousands of videos here on the internet, on YouTube, and today we're reacting to lawyer videos. if they're good, they're bad, they're funny, and with me I've got a good friend of mine, Josh romelio, who is almost a lawyer himself. so close, you ready to do this? let's do it. this is a porn, right? I really think they reused some of the actors. you need your voice to be heard. I still think it's important if you deserve a lawyer who takes your case seriously. I love how he's so seriously. I won't back off until you get what's rightfully yours: perfect. hi, I'm Campbell Alexander. now it looks more like an SNL skit, the, the rapid picture-in-picture and they say actual client, but it does not look like an actual client. she looks like a Stokholm. [Music]. can we tok about how serious the music is that? an Oscar on his desk for Emmy or not? hundreds thousands. that takes experience, serious experience, just like his serious face. can you get me a fast cash settlement? [Music]. can you help me to get my green card? hey, jump, right now. oh, my God, that would never play now. do I have a case? do I have a pen? yes, I do. I'm Campbell Alexander and I won't stand for Injustike. [Music]. you made it clear to me from the very beginning that I have rights. he's very thorough, very efficient and he gets the job done. there's no way a real doctor like that might have been an actual client before, but that was not a real doctor. serious rights when the law puts up a fight. I [Music]. thanks Campbell Alexander. thank you, Campbell Alexander. Alexander, when things are looking down- they did a voiceover- look me up, I'll go to Great Heights to get what you, what you deserve. all right, let's react to it. all right. so he may be a good attorney, but whoever he hired to do this video, Yeah, steered him in a wrong way. yeah, like the writing was I honestly like, honest to God, I thought you were pulling a prank and, and this was a porn video, I had to watch it like twice before I realized it was real. I thought it was a parody the first time I watched it. yeah, and it wasn't until the, the red-haired woman that I was like: oh, this is more like an SNL skit, yeah, yeah, so I'll, I'll actually give like a compliment sandwich. so I'll say something that I think it did well in between, just us dog piling on it. so a lot of lawyer commercials and a lot of the ones we'll see they don't actually have clients in it and I think that there's a missed opportunity there, because really no one likes lawyers. even likable lawyers are still kind of unlikable. but clients, yeah, me Zing, but clients are really interesting. right like like there's an opportunity to say, hey, this single mom hurt her arm and I was able to help get food for her kids and and shirts for school. right like that's a cool story that people relate to. we don't really like. otherwise it's just a shouting contest where lawyers are like like I'm the best, I'm the best. well, trust me, I'll also jump on the compliment train. yeah, and it is hard, it is to do any kind of video production. yeah, and it's also hard to get the confidence to be on camera yourself. so this guy may be completely horrible on camera, but he at least tried. so I will give the compliment for, hey, taking the leap and going forward with it. and then I'll say, from a terrible standpoint, the music, the length. first of all, it's like a two minute commercial, but this is, this, is probably this, this commercial, from the way, the granularness of it, the editing of it, the lighting of it. it seems like it's from the era that would be on cable like late night, like you know where you buy that: a five minute spot, yeah, an hour Remnant, but uh, yeah, I mean, overall, this was, this was bad, but we're actually going to see some worse. they get worse. did you want to go step by step on this? first, let's. I think it's too long to go step by step. let's. let's do that for the smaller ones, okay. well, did you not want to like tok about the rating? no, well, we need to give him a rating. well, what I was going to say is like- and I don't want a dog pile, but like, if you go towards early, if you can find a frame where he's in his office, where the guys- yeah, right there, the shadowness that would never play in in modern video. now, like, the lighting is so harsh, the framing, the, the, the, the, the bad shadow that you could easily fix that with a backlight. yeah, the hair light, um. so again, this is granular. it's probably not interesting, so, but anyway, well, I'll say one more thing too. uh, there's enough negative stereotypes about lawyers- whoever green, let him- holding piles of cash like that, like you can't have it both ways. you're either gonna be toking about serious issues and people getting hurt or you're going to be like a ambulance Chaser, like flashing cash. so you know there's. I would say that from his branding it's not cohesive, that he's the good guy like I don't know what kind of law he practiked- personal injury, obviously, I mean. I mean maybe more. he has a green card joke in there, right, but most of it is focused on some type of person. can we fast forward to the part where he sits down and let's just watch that one more time, because I think there needs to be two separatings. there needs to be a rating for the overall video. you know, overall, him just sitting down, be like right here, be like right here, right there, let's just watch this. Alexander and I won't stand for Injustike [Music]. I mean that that's amazing, that's, that's comedic gold. but also it doesn't make sense, it doesn't fit like he's suggesting that he will stand for Injustike, like he's wink, wink, yeah, um, I'm gonna say 2.2 out of five. I'm gonna give it a four only because effort is such a huge. you're giving that a four out of five. oh, out of five. I said 2.2 out of five. okay, are we using ten? I thought it was ten, ten. okay, I'll go up to a three. if we're using a TENS, go all right. okay, let's go to the next four out of ten. badly hurt. all you have to do to cheat yourself immediately. better, out of all or most of the money you deserve from a production, I will go after them. for every penny you deserve 459 cash, 459 cash. what I love so much about this and I'm I like how. in the last video I was like you probably don't want to be holding cash as a lawyer. then he's like: cash is our phone number. well, so from you can just tell this is more modern than the other one, just because the quality of it time job. but what it feels like to me and just going through my memory bank of all the random lawyer videos I've seen online or on on the on TV, is it's. it's almost like one lawyer who, the first person to ever do any kind of commercial, ever did something like this and somebody was like, oh, that must work, so I'm gonna do it, and then everybody does it. is there any metrics that that works? it's crazy how smart lawyers are, but how bad they are at marketing because they're smart at this one thing- and it's true for a lot of different fields- like when I worked at a law office, it would be shot and they did bankruptcies. you'd be shocked how many lawyers and doctors, people that make a lot of money, are coming and getting bankruptcies because they're not good with money. you can be really smart at one thing and really bad at another, and most lawyers they don't. they don't know from their left hand, from their right hand, when it comes to marketing and I'll. I'll just like tok about this for a second. what is the deal with lawyers and hammers? we got this guy. six is Hammer. yeah, but that's who everyone in Texas thinks of is, uh, uh, oh, man, what's his name? all right, well, the Texas Hammer is like a big personality. I can't think of his name right now, but then this guy- yeah, Jim Allen, the Texas hammer, and he's on the Billboards and everything. but this guy is a completely different guy in a different state. yeah, that just also came up with the hammer. like I'm sure there's a hammer in every Metropolitan District. yeah, there's like a hammer, there's a gavel. that's why, like, I have a whole thing Spiel on, like kings and queens. yeah, like: there's, there's a, there's an auto king. in every town There's a, a king o.

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Hiring The Best Lawyer In Town | Detroiters

okay, so I've narrowed it down to two lawyers. do you know your rights? because I do. if you are weak, I would fight for you, and if you are strong, we will fight together. I am Germanic heroes like earth. yep, check this guy out. have you been injured in accident or a slip and fall? call me wat wash, I'll try my best. I got hit by a city bus and Walt got me some of the money I asked for. I got arrested for drunk driving. I got found guilty in stars six months but I could tell Walt tried as hard as he could, even cuss when we lost caught three, one, three. Walt tries. I'm Walt wash and I try my best. he included testimonial from a guy who lost. yeah, I mean, I think we gotta go with Jumana whoa. wait a minute, look at this, won't work. she has an April in the D video. hey, what's up Detroit? it's April in the D, that magical month when the Pistons, Red Wings and the Tigers are all playing at the same time. this is my video submission for the Fox Sports Detroit theme song contest. please vote for me. check it out. [Music] all detroit ladies. book it also. yes, so confident. I mean that's how he should be in his ads, right? [Music]. you know what, if we hire in the represent Sheila, that would be a foot in the door for his business, and we got his business. that would be ten in a row. [Music]. well, I'll do my best, guys, but I can't make any promises. duis are tough. will they take away my driver's license? I do not know. look, to be honest, I'm kind of a Mac when it comes to dog bites. when the officer pulled you over, did you get bit by a dog? no, crap, cuz I'm kind of a makkad dog bites. gentlemen, shall we go? oh, hold on a minute. he didn't say he was bad at DUIs, he just said he's a Mad Dog. but it's kind of a man, kind of America. thank you for your time, Walter, but we really need to meet with other lawyers before we make a decision. hold on Sheila. I mean, after all, we are footing the bill here and I think Walter here might secretly be the best lawyer in town. I'm not, I'm not. look well, we. you saw your aim from the day video and its rest taken. I mean, you exude confidence. you come off a little bit stiff and in person, but we can help with that. that's not why we're here. you see, we run a small advertising firm. it's on a little bit of a streak. oh really, would I know any of your clients? um, the Michigan Science Center, whoa, the Science Center? holy, what do those guys really like? they're honestly so nice. yes, I knew it. so what do you say? well, how about you? let us put that rock star from that April MIDI video in a commercial for your law firm. mr Partin, daddy, looks like you got yourself a lawyer and if we're being 100, it would help me out a ton if you get bit by a dog between now and the court date. I'm not getting bit by a dog, okay. well, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't suggest it. and really, between you and I is really easy: just wait until they're eating and then you grab their crotch. so yeah, and in a row, worse fate. [Music].