{"id":4446,"date":"2006-03-21T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T02:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/03\/21\/kilpatrick-likes-the-pit-bull"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:04","slug":"kilpatrick-likes-the-pit-bull-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/03\/21\/kilpatrick-likes-the-pit-bull-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilpatrick Likes the Pit Bull Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pape & Chandler<\/FONT><\/A>‘s Pit Bull has a new fan: James J. Kilpatrick. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Asking, “<\/FONT>How Do You Feel About Bulldogs?” <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A>(The Conservative <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Voice<\/EM>, March 21, 2006). Kilpatrick<\/FONT> describes the battle of the <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Ft. Lauderdale motorcycle injury lawyers with the Florida Bar, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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asking: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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First question: How do you feel about trial lawyers? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Second question: How do you feel about pit bull dogs? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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May the one breed lawfully adopt an image of the other? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"dog<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The Supreme Court will step into this touchy question if it <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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agrees to hear an appeal brought by two Fort Lauderdale <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lawyers against the Florida Bar. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Kilpatrick rightly notes that “Some close questions of First Amendment <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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law make it a tough case to call.”   However:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“The Florida lawyers are eloquently represented in the U.S. Supreme <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Court by professor Rodney A. Smolla of the University of Richmond <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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School of Law. In his petition for review he argues persuasively that <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lawyers should not be punished for advertising “that is not false, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading in any sense.” Good point. Is <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the amorphous “dignity of the profession” an interest so overriding <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that it trumps a First Amendment right of commercial speech? Good <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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question.” <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Although noting that “Lawyers have had a tough time of it at least since Luke <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wrote his gospel 2,000 years ago,” Kilpatrick concludes: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                     Hoya Jack<\/EM><\/FONT> \"GUJackMugG\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“My own thought comes down to this: If I want to sue my doctor <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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for a botched operation, give me a pit bull lawyer every time. And <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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if I learn of his services on TV, so what?<\/FONT> “<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT>
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Of course, we’ve been covering this case in depth <\/FONT>since<\/FONT><\/A> May 2004. <\/FONT>Here<\/FONT><\/A> is <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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our discussion of the pretentious opinion of the Florida Supreme Court in<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Florida Bar v. <\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>John Pape and Marc Chandler<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>.  Two days <\/FONT>ago, we posted <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“pit bull logo taken down<\/FONT><\/A> — do you feel more dignified?<\/FONT>,” which <\/FONT>includes <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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images <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>of the Pape & Chandler masthead, with and without their <\/FONT>Pit Bull <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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logo.  We <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>have also preserved a P&C pit bull ad here<\/A>.   <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM> (11:30 PM, March 21):  Marc Chandler just emailed me to say that <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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1) The Florida Bar waived its right to respond, and 2) the Supreme Court has <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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not<\/EM> requested a response.  We’re afraid that this makes it highly unlikely that <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the case will make it to the “discuss list” and then be granted certiorari.  Let’s <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hope miracles nonetheless happen. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT> <\/DIV>
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“PitBullLogo”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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runaway kite!<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the dog also eyes it<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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restlesslly<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 <\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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     Kobayashi Issa<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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       translated by <\/FONT>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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p.s<\/STRONG><\/EM>. Speaking of personal injury lawyers, we’re pleased to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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say <\/FONT>that the first two Google results, this morning, for the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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query <\/FONT>What Is An Appropriate Contingency Fee<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>> were from <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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here<\/A> and here<\/A> at f\/k\/a –<\/EM> despite the insults<\/A> of a certain dignified<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p\/i lawyer..    <\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                       \"p&c\" here<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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Pape & Chandler‘s Pit Bull has a new fan: James J. Kilpatrick. Asking, “How Do You Feel About Bulldogs?” (The Conservative Voice, March 21, 2006). Kilpatrick describes the battle of the Ft. Lauderdale motorcycle injury lawyers with the Florida Bar, asking: First question: How do you feel about trial lawyers?   Second question: How do you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-19I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12723,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions\/12723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}