Why not some of them?

The bait and switch ploy

The website of one competitor says they have a client satisfaction guarantee. They say if you don’t win, you don’t pay. They say these things on every page of their website. What they don’t say on every page is these promises apply to personal injury cases and never to criminal defense cases. You have to click around and read carefully to figure that out.

The scare-and-save ploy

The website of another competitor all but says that other lawyers stink and that the world is going to end unless you hire them. Then you have a chance. But they can’t back it up with anything but blather. The person at the helm barely takes cases any more. He has mostly young lawyers working for him who do not resemble the seasoned, fierce warriors he portrays online.

The shell game ploy

A lot of law firm websites are full of slop. Could you come up with the same kind of content on your own using an AI chatbot? Is that what they did? Is the content written for you or to game the search engines? Is it done by a lawyer or an internet marketing agency, a master of shuffling content for different crimes, locations, and service areas? Is it hard to tell the difference?

None of that

Why is this happening? We are living in the era of the Wild West when it comes to law firm advertising. It’s pretty much anything goes. Just because a lawyer’s website says it does not make it true. If a lawyer can’t prove it, be skeptical. Even if we are that law firm. We think you will find that we talk straight and we are transparent. If we use AI, you know it because we say it. If you think we are full of it, call us out.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No, we believe most law firms play fair, including most of those on our rankings page.

    But some don’t.

    This page is about the firms that don’t and what they do that is not fair. So you know what to look out for.

  • Our remarks underlying the bait and switch headline are indisputable facts.

    Our remarks underlying the scare-and-save headline are a mixture of opinion and fact.

    Our remarks underlying the shell game ploy are or suggest opinions.

    You should try to verify what we are saying and see if you agree.

    The headlines themselves are opinions, but we believe in them.

    We don’t pretend to know who wrote them or what they were thinking at the time.

    We do believe the effect on at least a significant number of people is difficult to argue the other way.

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  • March 21, 2026.

    The information on this page is current through at least that date, which is the date this page was created.