An email sent today to lawyers across the country should cause consumers use extreme due-diligence when searching for a lawyer on the Internet.
DUI1.com, a very popular and highly ranked (in Google) website solicits people who have been charged with drinking while driving and who are looking for a lawyer to defend them.
Their site says:
If you're charged with a Driving While Intoxicated offense, it's possible to have your charges dismissed with the assistance of a skilled DWI legal counselor. You must act NOW! Click on a state and then county or city to locate a fully qualified drunk driving defender or use our easy search to locate a defender via county, city or zip code.
But, in an email sent to thousands of lawyers across the United States today, they solicited lawyers to sign up to be one of their fully qualified drunk driving defenders.
Know what their stated qualifications were to let a lawyer represent you?
Here's the text:
I've written a book for consumers, the Truth About Lawyer Advertising. Its available at Amazon.com
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Thank you for posting this information! I am a DUI defense attorney, and I dedicate a lot of time to studying the science of breath and blood testing as well as developing defenses in drunk driving cases. I cannot begin to describe how angry I was after reading the spam I received from DUI1.com, which advocates incompetence, easy money, and a dump-truck lawyer mentality. The owner of DUI1.com, Mr. David Sheehan aka Saeed R Sehizadeh, is a California attorney who specializes in developing legal directories and spamming attorneys with get-rich-quick schemes. Reportedly, he does not even practice law. He has engaged in similar schemes in the field of personal injury law. From across the nation, the outrage from other dedicated dui defense attorneys like myself has been so overwhelming that Mr. Sheehan has lost several customers. Still, many attorneys continue to market under Mr. Sheehan’s duplicitous website. A far more reputable organization for consumers to turn to is the National College for DUI Defense (More ... ). Although membership does not imply that any particular attorney is a “good” lawyer, the best DUI defense attorneys in the nation are members of NCDD. Moreover, the NCDD requires members to maintain specified levels of involvement as well as ethical standards. William Maze
They're not alone. We have an attorney in upstate NY who advertises on the radio. The advice he gives in the ads is not all that great. He markets heavily on the web (I do too). I recently found him advertising his business model as well:
Not sure why my link didn't appear. Do a Google search for:
google search for albany lawyer smelly returns. Apparently colons don't work in your comments.
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