{"id":1696,"date":"2025-11-16T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/?page_id=1696"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:05:10","slug":"monopolizing-misfortune-a-story-of-stratification-in-the-personal-injury-bar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/in-print\/volume-38-issue-2-spring-2025\/monopolizing-misfortune-a-story-of-stratification-in-the-personal-injury-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Monopolizing Misfortune: A Story of Stratification in the Personal Injury Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legal profession has long viewed personal injury law as the profession\u2019s<br \/>\nmost ethically dubious field. In particular, the profession has expressed concern<br \/>\nabout personal injury attorneys\u2019 perceived tendencies to solicit clients in objec<br \/>\ntionable ways. This Article explores the profession\u2019s attempt to solve this perceived<br \/>\nproblem through state regulation of personal injury attorneys\u2019 advertising tactics.<br \/>\nSpecifically, it examines the development and imposition of these regulations in<br \/>\nFlorida and Kentucky, two of the first states to implement these rules in the late<br \/>\n1980s and 1990s. In attempting to solve one ethical problem, the profession cre<br \/>\nated another, by giving control of the regulations\u2019 creation to attorneys who often<br \/>\nhad a vested interest in which personal injury attorneys would succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/11\/GT-GJLE250029.pdf\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal profession has long viewed personal injury law as the profession\u2019s most ethically dubious field. In particular, the profession has expressed concern about personal injury attorneys\u2019 perceived tendencies to solicit clients in objec tionable ways. This Article explores the profession\u2019s attempt to solve this perceived problem through state regulation of personal injury attorneys\u2019 advertising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14207,"featured_media":0,"parent":1690,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1696\/revisions\/1698"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}