Who can I sue? Find me an attorney 2.0

Hypothesis:

• You just bought a "Sexy Little Thing/Thong" ... that has injured you. Damn! Where to find the activist in consumer protection attorney who will file a lawsuit against Victoria's Secret?

• You just tried to tweet that you were bachelor again but the whale was up, the service was down and your loved-and-beloved one married another guy. Fail! Where to find the activist in family protection attorney who will file a lawsuit against twitter and annul mariage?

Maybe on Who Can I sue...

Curtis A. Wolfe is the founder of WhoCanISue.com, a new web service that will be launched in september in the USA. At the first time, I thought it was a joke, or a scam. A website that makes the legal process easy when you slip and fall on a banana peel?

... But it sounds it is actually real.

"As if there aren't enough lawyers out there inventing lawsuits, now we're going to invite the public to do so". Fair enough, Richard Sharpstein, prominent Miami trial attorney!

In other hand, truely, isn't it fair that thanks to the spread-power of Internet, people could easy vindicate their legal rights? 

So, will this site make people more aware of what their rights are -- and aware of whether a legal claim will generate enough money to be interesting - for the lawyer, or will it just increase the number of lawsuits?

This kind of service is not new, but this time, the service, still free for the consumers, claims to differ from others in that it will provide a real-time access to attorneys.

Wow! Will there be an iPhone version? ;-)

A rating system per category? The one with the most appointments, the one who made the greatest trials, the one who does win the largest number, the one who makes you earn more money, the one who takes the most foolish causes?

Well, in fact, the first question -- before "can you trust an attorney listed on this site" -- is: will serious lawyers have enough humor to pay a 1,000 USD/month to be listed, or an "undisclosed additional consideration" to gain visibility on the search results* on a site that actually makes fun of lawsuits? Admit ... this guy falling on a banana peel ... seems closer to a parody than to the usual style.

Even if attorney is a state of mind and not a nationality, I simply can't imagine more than a couple of serious French Attorneys willing to pay to be listed in a such site. Am I naive?

Anyway, I would have been curious about what does french Maître Eolas think about it, if he wasn't on vacation ! Maybe super-hero Attorney rthefish will pay a visit here -- this is an idiom, alas :-) and will let us know his point of view?

More on PRnewswire and Time

* This sounds to be the Business model of the service.

Comments

[RT Fish]

My super-hearing picked up the call from the other side of the web. Feel like Underdog.

This service, if used responsibly, should reduce the number of suits filed. Too often potential plaintiffs don't have access to attorneys any further than calling them out of the phone book. The result is they take their case to an attorney who is either inexperienced or unwilling to tell them they don't have a claim.

This service allows people to get a second and third opinion, which will result in fewer cases in court -- who would still file suit in the face of three lawyers telling you it's a waste of time?

An ebay type feedback/rating system would be cool, but lawyers won't use the service with it. The good ones don't need it -- they're getting their work word of mouth as it is, and the poor ones don't want people to know they lose cases. It may be good for new attorneys building a practice though and big firms with national practices.