A Website By Any Other Name

John Hopkins

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I am outraged and I have had just about enough. Before I get started, let me get the preliminaries out of the way: 1) this is most certainly a tirade; and 2) this is entirely my opinion.

OK, let’s just get it out there: www.WhoCanISue.com . Now maybe it is because I have seen not one, not two, but at least six of their billboard advertisements in the last week that has sent me over the edge. The mythical reputation of trial attorneys is not bad enough; someone feels it is necessary to launch a website with a name that cannot avoid offending the majority of people I know, both lawyers and non-lawyers.

I am not going to engage in trying to explain that trial attorneys are the last safeguards of citizens with no hope of controlling reckless defendants without them. No, I am not going to explain the constitution or the part about having access to the court system. And, I am certainly not going to try and discuss how, without trial attorneys, people are going to be victimized by defendants more interested in profit than safety. Nope, I am not going to go into any of those things.

I am going to tell you that I am personally offended by a website that seems to trivialize something as serious as the suffering of real injured victims. I am offended by a website that, at least in terms of its name, seems to infer that exercising your legal rights is somehow tantamount to a lottery. I am insulted by a website that encourages people to think about a lawsuit; almost in terms of a game show.

In conclusion, I would also encourage attorneys and law firms who have not undertaken to do business with this website to check the site and verify whether their firm’s name or the names of any of your attorneys are on the site. Our firm accidentally discovered the inclusion of most of our attorney’s names on the site without any knowledge or permission on the part of our firm. We have been assured that any reference to our firm or its attorneys have been removed from the site, but we have no idea how long our names were being exploited without our permission or how much damage may have been done to our reputation, which we have worked long to establish and maintain.

Thanks. I feel a little better.