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Lawyers deliberately mislead--it's official

  • 29-09-2006 10:44am
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    Mad Finn
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    Side-splittingly funny letter in the Irish Times today from the Director General of the Law Society who has a good old-fashioned grumble about this new fangled technology nonsense and the detrimental effect it is having on the reputations of those in his profession.

    The focus of his ire is an un-named website which purports to "rate" solicitors. I suspect this is in the same family as sites like "Rate My Teacher", "Rate my Schlong" and the stunningly bad taste "Rate My Poo" (Don't go there. No really. Don't go there)

    The letter points out that given the anonymous nature of postings, many of the negative ratings could be made by "anybody with a personal grudge, including the clients on the other side in ...cases where the solicitor being defamed in fact did too good a job as far as the embittered 'rater' is concerned"

    Well no **** Sherlock! Those of us whose business practices, not to mention dress sense, more closely resembles the 21st century rather than the 17th are well aware of the Ronnie O'Brien effect on internet polls.

    (Thump Thump, Gavel Gavel. Cue quavering voice:
    "And who pray tell is Roddy O'Byrne?"
    "Ahem Ronnie O'Brien, m'lud, is a rather non-descript Irish professional footballer who managed to be voted Juventus player of the century on an Internet poll in 2000. It appears one can do this rather easily, using something called viral messaging. Please don't ask")

    But the funniest part is the frank admission that "..it is recognised that the top-mark ratings of solicitors by some deliriously happy clients can be, and no doubt in many cases have been, posted by the solicitors themselves."

    So there you have it. Solicitors set out to mislead the public by deliberately giving themselves favourable testimonials that purport to come from satisfied clients.

    I didn't say that. The Director General of the Law Society said it. (Sub needed)


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