Author Topic: Awesome videos. (Read 23758 times)

Buster's Uncle · « **Reply #45 on:** March 07, 2014, 08:57:17 PM »

This is a real lawyer.


Thanks Dan!!!! (412) 454-5582 @ThanksDanEsq

Geo · « **Reply #46 on:** March 07, 2014, 10:24:50 PM »

Quote from: BUncle on March 07, 2014, 08:57:17 PM

This is a real lawyer.

The small print states otherwise?
Also, I thought you didn't live in Pennsylvania?

Buster's Uncle · « **Reply #47 on:** March 07, 2014, 10:34:57 PM »

I don't, and the small print says not to take the commercial seriously. It's a real commercial for a real lawyer, but he has a sense of humor and loved Saul on Breaking Bad.

Geo · « **Reply #48 on:** March 08, 2014, 08:27:16 AM »

I bet you didn't catch the criminality of my "

" line.

Buster's Uncle · « **Reply #49 on:** March 09, 2014, 02:40:44 AM »

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Pennsylvania lawyer's ad starring smiling thugs draws criticism
Reuters
By Elizabeth Daley March 7, 2014 5:17 PM

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A Pittsburgh lawyer's online ad showing smiling robbers, drug dealers and prostitutes flashing thumbs up and thanking him for getting them off the hook has garnered tens of thousands of views and drawn fire from a local bar association.

One fictional criminal pauses while climbing out a window, carrying a laptop to say "Thanks Dan," to the camera, while a pair of men carrying handguns offer a similar message before pulling ski masks over their faces in the three-minute, 27-second ad posted on YouTube by criminal defense attorney Daniel Muessig.

Muessig, a 2012 University of Pittsburgh Law School graduate, then makes his own pitch: "Trust me, I may have a law degree, but I think like a criminal."

The spot has been viewed more than 80,000 times since Muessig posted it on Thursday, and the 32-year-old attorney said he believed the tongue-in-cheek approach would appeal to possible clients.

"I wanted to connect with my potential clients in a way that people from my generation could understand," Muessig said in a Friday phone interview. "I wanted to give people something that would be memorable and entertaining."

Tom Loftus, spokesman for the Allegheny County Bar Association, said he found the ad "insulting to Pittsburgh lawyers and lawyers across the country, who take great pride in their profession."

He said he worried that the video could be misinterpreted: "There could be kids watching it, or people who don't even understand what tongue-in-cheek means, and what they'll see is: if you commit a crime this attorney will get you off without any explanation."

Muessig defended the spot but said he would take it down if law enforcement or a legal professional organization asked him to.

"It's a send-up of the cartoonishly amoral Jewish criminal defense attorney," he said. "The criminal justice system is broken, it creates a system where we are basically putting people on a conveyor belt to prison. If you want to get your ire up, get your ire up about that."

http://news.yahoo.com/pennsylvania-lawyers-ad-starring-smiling-thugs-draws-criticism-221739247--sector.html

Rusty Edge · « **Reply #50 on:** March 09, 2014, 08:11:11 PM »

"The criminal justice system is broken, it creates a system where we are basically putting people on a conveyor belt to prison. If you want to get your ire up, get your ire up about that."

If accused criminals have a right to an attorney, and nobody is willing to defend them, how will the courts ever clear their cases?

Somebody's got to do it.

I thought it was funny. People are confused because it's a tv ad, and on tv the good guys always win the criminal cases.