WhoCanISue.com
August 7, 2008
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.
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: Tort Reform, Trial Lawyers
6 Responses to “WhoCanISue.com”
There is more competition for this company. The domains (web addresses) WhoCanWeSue.com and WhoCanIScrew.com are available for sale at those addresses.
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.)
I don’t much like the site either. One man’s opinion:
http://www.attorneybutler.net/2008/08/whocanisuecom.html
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.
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
I have taken a few months before issuing a post on whocanisue.com. While trying to find a reason to hate this site I was unable to. It appears to be well put together, and while I am not sure what the questions do, it appears they did there job, as I went to the site looking to prove that I could find an attorney to take on a ba dcase, but I was never asked about my case just a series of yes/no and multiple choice questions that appeared to wead me out. So all in all I really like the concept, anxious to see where this company goes.