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Maybe it has something to do with the lousy economy. I’m spending a lot of blogging energy whacking the moles of unethical lawyer marketing. If we—the bar, honest members of the practical blawgosphere—let people like Andy Nolen and a Fresno criminal defense alwyer slide with their flaming astroturf and their content scraping, we’ll only see [...]
Mark Bennett | September 4, 2009
[Updated to remove Googleable references to the subject, who was duped by her ex-client web designer. She is not without fault, but it's appropriate to dissociate the posts from her name.]
I don’t know why, but I would have expected someone who, like a particular Fresno criminal defense lawyer, reads this blog [update: it appears that [...]
Mark Bennett | August 20, 2009
I wrote last November about Lethal Generosity in the Legal Profession, my thesis being “that the most generous members of the criminal defense community are the most credible and influential.”
I was talking then about sharing information and motions amongst criminal defense lawyers.
But it’s become apparent to me that the principle applies in the online marketing [...]
Mark Bennett | August 17, 2009
In conclusion from this post, this post, this post, and this post:
Andy Nolen has been disciplined by the State Bar before. He persists in engaging in deceptive advertising. In my opinion, he needs to be removed from what passes in his world for the “practice of law.” Whether they know it or not, his clients [...]
Mark Bennett | August 17, 2009
Following on from this post, this post, and this post:
I can’t swear to it, but I’ve heard that Andy Nolen has never tried a case to a jury. The Harris County Justice Information System, JIMS, doesn’t show a jury trial for Andy Nolen in records of 342 cases going back to 2006.
Despite his not trying [...]
Mark Bennett | August 17, 2009
Following on from this post and this post:
When I googled Mekisha Murray to find her address and let her know that she’d been the victim of an Andy Nolen false negative review, up popped her Yahoo Local page, with (in addition to the one-star review of the last post) this two-star review from“niecy” on [...]
Mark Bennett | August 17, 2009
Following on from this post . . .
“Jerry k.” left 31 reviews for Houston lawyers on July 23, 2009: 30 one-star reviews and one five-star review.
Guess who got five stars.
Yep, James A. “Andy” Nolen.
Among the lawyers panned by “jerry k.”: Don Becker (again, twice on this day), Todd Leffler, Dan Corrigan, Doug Durham, Dane [...]
Mark Bennett | August 17, 2009
Okay, let’s play “one of these things is not like the other things,” Houston criminal defense lawyer edition.
Ready?
John Floyd.
Jack Carroll.
James A. “Andy” Nolen.
Don Becker.
Tyler Flood.
Wayne Hill.
Which of these things just doesn’t belong?
If you guessed “Andy Nolen”, you’re right.
Mark Bennett | June 30, 2008
From the website of Andy Nolen, who practices in the Harris County Criminal Justice Center:
RATED BY GOOGLE AND YAHOO AS ONE OF HOUSTON’S:
BEST CRIMINAL ATTORNEYS
BEST CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS
BEST CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
BEST CRIMINAL LAW FIRMS
BEST CRIMINAL DEFENSE TRIAL LAWYERS
I suppose he would say that his name pops up in a search for “best criminal attorneys Houston” [...]
