{"id":4608,"date":"2003-10-06T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/10\/06\/tracking-down-the-source-of-w"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:37","slug":"tracking-down-the-source-of-wacky-debtor-legalisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/10\/06\/tracking-down-the-source-of-wacky-debtor-legalisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Down the Source of Wacky Debtor Legalisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t you hate it when a writer complains about all the dangerous stuff out there on the internet, but doesn’t provide even one link to substantiate the claim?  Well, I do, and I was too wound up for sleeping at about 4 AM today, when I encountered the ABA Journal<\/EM> article<\/A>, Say What? Web’s Loopy Lingo: Debtors Hop on the Internet for Bogus Legalisms and Wacky Wording <\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT>(by Margaret Graham Tebo, Oct. 6, 2003).  So, I did some of reporter Tebo’s homework through the sophisticated research technique of sticking her “whacky” phrases into my Google task bar window, in the hope of finding the sources of alleged UPL.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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It looks like I found a few places for bar counsel and other deputies in the unauthorized practice police to start foraging.  Indeed, I might have scrounged up some work for the Texas UPL posse, which embarrassed itself by going after self-help software in Nolo v. Texas<\/A><\/EM> <\/FONT>[check out our Unauthorized Practice<\/A> Resources page<\/FONT>]<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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According to the Journal <\/EM>article, lawyers for creditors, including Austin attorney Manuel H. Newburger, have been facing a myriad of strange new defenses.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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