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Bradley Johnson Offers a Free Four-Part Symposium on Internet Marketing for Lawyers

Mark Bennett | December 1, 2009

1. September 17ish, 2009: Seattle lawyer Bradley Johnson, using the name seattle injury attorney, tries to leave a spam comment at Popehat:
Really enjoyed reading your blog post. I will have to bookmark your site for later.
Patrick writes about it, naturally.
2. November 14, 2009: a representative from Bradley Johnson’s office contacts Popehat:
to request we remove a [...]

Does Mensa Matter?

Mark Bennett | January 31, 2008

Mensa is an organization for people with IQs above the 98th percentile. That translates to IQs above 132 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test (wikipedia). (It is, to borrow from John Bender, sorta social — demented and sad, but social.)
Lawyer is a typical occupation for people with an IQ in the 130s. According to the Michigan [...]

Le Procureur Soleil de la Republique?

Mark Bennett | December 29, 2007

KHOU-TV put up PDFs of some of Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal’s emails here and here. It turns out that Chuck uses (or was using) the email address “l’etat@dao.hctx.net”. How very Louis XIV.