{"id":131799,"date":"2026-01-13T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/131799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:43:08","slug":"advertising-has-hurt-the-integrity-of-the-legal-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/131799\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising has hurt the integrity of the legal profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 13, 2026 8 AM PT <\/p>\n

To the editor: I thoroughly enjoyed the Los Angeles Times investigation piece concerning the Downtown LA Law Group (\u201cThe rise of DTLA: Car crashes, costly surgeries and a $4-billion sex abuse settlement,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 31). The article was beautifully written. Rebecca Ellis (and Christopher Buchanan, who contributed) did a masterful job weaving all the information into a marvelous informational mosaic.<\/p>\n

I was also disgusted by what I read.<\/p>\n

When I watch the news at night, I am appalled by the onslaught of televised lawyers expounding their skill and dedication to achieve \u201cjustice\u201d for clients. They remind me of televangelists. I suppose the rise of television lawyers was fueled by insurance companies\u2019 callous responses to many real-life personal catastrophes. Still, I find their pleas for clients to be distasteful at best.<\/p>\n

The Times story highlights the worst (and predictable) behavior of this profession. DTLA is, I fear, the tip of the iceberg. And all those trumped-up suits only cost all of us by way of higher insurance rates.<\/p>\n

Allowing the legal profession to advertise has resulted in sanctioned ambulance-chasing. It\u2019s time to restrict their advertising and return integrity to the legal profession.<\/p>\n

Jerrold Coleman, Santa Clarita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 13, 2026 8 AM PT To the editor: I thoroughly enjoyed the Los Angeles Times investigation piece…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3034,67542,3297,8533,67543,14549,6858,2072,33343,6958,48,52,51,1429,22454,47,50,49,63,6677,22025],"class_list":["post-131799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-advertising","tag-callous-response","tag-car-crash","tag-client","tag-costly-surgery","tag-dedication","tag-dtla","tag-editor","tag-insurance-company","tag-integrity","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lawyer","tag-legal-profession","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-rise","tag-skill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}