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| This is Marlin, but I couldn't find the guys he put in his TV ad. |
I'm waiting around to catch a charter flight back to my new home. Against my better judgment, I allowed my friend to turn the TV to Judge Judy. local commercials for JJ and similar programming also feature local law firms, sometimes of the ambulance-chasing variety. The commercial I just saw was for Marlin Costello, Attorney of Law. The ad featured several men, presumably attorneys in a law firm, sitting around as very small table, discussing ways in which they could shuffle various cases, drag matters out, create new dealys, and so forth. When one of them picked up the file of a case for which the opposition was being represented by Marlin Costello, the consensus was that they should settle immediately -- that Marlin Costello was not an attorney with whom to trifle. Such may indeed be the case.
Marlin Costello's credentials and skills nothwithstanding, the gentlemen hired to tportray the opposing attorneys look like they were recruited either from some sort of halfway house or perhaps from the new recruit line to an A.A. meeting, long before time to take any pledge (Do they do that at A.A.?) or learn a serenity prayer. Whatever is the lamest law school in the nation--probably something online -- I have the most grave of doubts that any of the men protraying the attorneys could have successfully completed the forms to enroll in the diploma mill, much less to have graduated from it, however lax the requirements might have been, and subsequently passing the CA bar exam. I don't run with an especially elite crowd, but with thirty minutes or so of notice, I could assemble a group of three or four men to portray lawyers in a TV commercial who at least didn't look as though they were just thrown out of a bar in Mendota or Hickman and were perhaps filmed before regaining temporary sobriety.
Perhaps I'm being picky, but I'm confident that you would agree if you saw the commercial. I tried to find a clip but couldn't. Sorry!
There was a tough looking old fart actor who used to do all the lawyer ads in Virginia and North Carolina. I kind of don't miss seeing that stuff.
ReplyDeleteAs much as local commercials become a part of our culture, i find them annoying and could easily live without them.
DeleteThe court TV show ads feature a whole lot of ambulance-chasing lawyers, along with investors offering to buy out people's structured settlements, and for-profit colleges and universities offering promising and lucrative careers with very little up-front expense to the takers-- enterprises often preyong upon the vulnerable, who, demographically, comprise the biggest part of the IJ/People's Court/Jerry Springer/Steve Wilcos viewership. i. too, could live without seeing them.
Marlin should get a nicer hairpiece, too.
ReplyDeleteMarlin has a Youtube channel on which he posted a video of himself playing with a drone. You'd think that if he had sufficient spare cash to afford a drone, he would invest in a more authentic head rug. Then again, perhaps what he wears on his head passes as a life-like hairpiece in Fresno, which is probably where he lives and practices law.
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