D.A. Confidential is outed by the Austin American Statesman:
Mark Pryor said that friends, neighbors and fellow lawyers regularly ask him about his job as a felony prosecutor in Travis County.
And the former newspaper reporter, who hopes to soon be a published novelist, loves to write.
So Pryor began a blog last month called
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From an email several months back:
Writing on behalf of my son. We are completely frustrated with our attorney choice.
They told us 99% it would be dismissed in our first meeting. Court date arrives and then a new attorney starts on the case. There was no hope it would be dismissed.
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Continue Reading The Bad News Is… You’re The One Out Of A Hundred
A new criminal law blog in Austin has popped up recently, but unlike those I recently posted about, this one comes in the black hat variety. That’s right: it’s written by a prosecutor.
Waiting in line for a down elevator after getting out of court this morning, a lawyer and a client talking about having the ignition interlock on his car "the whole time" while his case was pending:
Client: I haven’t gotten into any trouble for almost two years.
Lawyer: …and for you, that’s actually really impressive.
The lawyer…
Robert Guest complains that he is not psychic. For example, on Avvo Answers, a commonly asked query goes like this: “I’ve been charged with X, what kind of sentence will I get?” His response:
Let’s see. Without knowing the facts, court, prosecutor, legal issues, or your criminal history you want me to guess the outcome of a case based upon the charge? Really?
Why do so many criminal defense lawyers, who are solo practitioners mostly, insist on getting a DBA or incorporating as “The Law Offices of [John Smith]” plural? Instead of “The Law Office of [John Smith]” singular?
Actually it’s not just those in the criminal defense bar I notice doing this; it’s solos of all kinds. I…
“Hi, Dennis.”
Bumped into fellow Austin criminal defense lawyer Jon Evans in the courthouse last week, and he had just looked me right in the eyes and said, “Hi, Dennis”.
I’ve known Jon for as long as I’ve been a lawyer. He officed upstairs in the old Stewart Title Building when I was first out of…
You Don’t Make Friends With Salad responds to my recent $1,000,000 post:
Jamie is decrying the online ad spending of the local criminal defense bar. According to his estimates, in the Austin market alone, criminal defense attorneys are spending about $1 million per year on Google’s cost-per-click AdWords program. I’m not sure that the
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I know just enough about SEO – search engine optimization – to be dangerous.
That is to say, I find it interesting, and I’ve looked into it, but I’m not remotely an expert.
But folks come up to me in the Travis County Courthouse frequently – other lawyers that is – and ask me point…
Per year. $1,000,000.00 into Google’s coffers.
That’s my guestimate as to how much local defense lawyers are spending in these parts to advertise various phrases through Google’s AdWords program. I’m going to attempt to make this a substantive post, not just something that Google – or the other search engines – scans and reads for various…