{"id":171700,"date":"2026-02-19T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171700\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:33:10","slug":"legal-billboard-advertising-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171700\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Billboard Advertising \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-521177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Texperts_Square_HPM_wide.jpg\" alt=\"Texperts\" width=\"962\" height=\"760\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Texas is known for its legal advertising billboards that many of us have undoubtedly seen while stuck in traffic or driving on the state&#8217;s many highways.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>However, contrary to what some may think, given the, at times, humorous nature of these ads, they are subject to very strict rules and regulations about the way these lawyers advertise their services and the language they use.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio above, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/class\/political-science\/faculty-and-staff\/professors\/rottinghaus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>, a University of Houston political science professor and co-host of Houston Public Media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/shows\/party-politics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Party Politics<\/a>, breaks down Texas&#8217;s laws on lawyer advertising and what attorneys can and cannot say in these billboards.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Guest: David Coale, attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas is known for its legal advertising billboards that many of us have undoubtedly seen while stuck in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2982,69417,7050,20493,2245,56,58,57,69418,69419,69420,287,27,36048,11753],"class_list":["post-171700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-advertising","tag-billboards","tag-brandon-rottinghaus","tag-david-coale","tag-hello-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lawyer-advertising","tag-legal-advertising","tag-legal-billboards","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-laws","tag-texperts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}