WhoCanISue.com

Aug 7th, 2008 | By Dan Pero | Category: Tort Reform, Trial Lawyers | Print Print

Pity the poor blogger trying to keep up with the plaintiff’s bar. Nothing you can possibly come up with can match that profession’s propensity for self-satire.

Exhibit A: WhoCanISue.com. You might think that this is something a comedian came up with in a send-up of the legal profession. Or you might think it was last week’s Saturday Night Live skit that you slept through.

No. WhoCanISue.com is, in fact, a website that will go live in September, to compete with SueEasy.com and LegalMatch.com. Consumers will list their grievances—and plaintiffs’ attorneys, who pay $1,000 to appear on the site—will estimate how good a case they have.

Richard Sharpstein, a Miami trial attorney, told Time magazine, “It encourages, if not creates, lawsuits. Our country’s courts are clogged with unnecessary and frivolous lawsuits which delay, if not obstruct, the access to courts of people that really need to get there, that have serious legal grievances.”

We are reminded that there are attorneys who do take on meritorious cases. But then they aren’t the ones who have to shell out a $1,000 to troll for business on websites like WhoCanISue.com.

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  1. bill ewards August 7th, 2008 10:44 pm :

    There is more competition for this company. The domains (web addresses) WhoCanWeSue.com and WhoCanIScrew.com are available for sale at those addresses.

  2. Michael Tangeman August 8th, 2008 5:24 pm :

    Thanks for your post!

    As further info toward you and your readers’ understanding of WhoCanISue.com, I thought it might be helpful to provide links to a backgrounder on the company and how the service works, as well as the bio of founder & CEO Curtis Wolfe.

    WhoCanISue.com Backgrounder:
    http://tinyurl.com/5r7ym8

    Curtis Wolfe bio:
    http://tinyurl.com/63xx9k

    The full press release issued yesterday can be read online in its entirety on PRNewswire at: http://tinyurl.com/6rkvb7.

    (TinyURLs provided only so as not to clog your comments with long URLs.)

  3. Mike Butler August 11th, 2008 3:00 am :

    I don’t much like the site either. One man’s opinion:

    http://www.attorneybutler.net/2008/08/whocanisuecom.html

  4. John Bisnar August 11th, 2008 8:05 pm :

    I don’t like the site and especially don’t like the image that it casts. See: “WhoCanISue.com: Bad Taste Mockery or Marketing Genius?” at http://www.califorinainjuryblog.com.

  5. Michael Tangeman August 14th, 2008 3:48 pm :

    Opinions appreciated, but you might want to reconsider … CNN legal analyst Sonny Hostin reviewed the site on American Morning program today and said it might be a “win-win” for both attorneys and consumers. Check it out at: http://tinyurl.com/6qvvrt

    Even the normally anti-trial lawyer crowd at FOX News gave WhoCanISue.com a fair review last week at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UzNLFIz6JY

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