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The Puffery Of Lawyers, Rodney A. Smolla
The Puffery Of Lawyers, Rodney A. Smolla
University of Richmond Law Review
Lawyers advertise to attract clients. Politicians advertise to attract voters. Businesses advertise to attract customers. All of these advertisers advertise with a common subtext: choose me, because I'm better than the rest. Hire me, vote for me, buy my product, and good things will happen. The message may be blunt, explicit, direct, linear. But often it is not. The bludgeon is not the tool of choice in modem mass advertising. The message, more commonly, is presented with subtlety, often merely suggested, often presented with indirection, irony, camp, or comedy. Information as such is not the point. The stuff of modern …
Foreword, Harris L. Kay
Foreword, Harris L. Kay
University of Richmond Law Review
The University of Richmond Law Review is pleased to present the third annual Allen Chair Symposium issue. This special is- sue is intended as the literary culmination of the efforts of national legal scholars and students alike during the 1995 Allen Chair Symposium at the T.C. Williams School of Law. Each Spring, the Law School hosts the symposium, which is endowed to focus on and advance discourse in legal issues of national and international interest.