Hunting Clients Leads To Permanent Disbarment

The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has recommended the permanent disbarment of two attorneys for what the board characterizes as serious violations of client-solicitation rules as well as paying non-lawyers to drum up personal injury business. The board noted that the marketing tools used to solicit business included humor, t-shirts, pens and a rap song. Also unhelpful to one of lawyers was a newspaper comment that quoted him as saying that he viewed his operation as a business first and a law firm second. (Mike Frisch)