New Website Plays Matchmaker For Would-Be Plaintiffs
A new website that has been described as a “reverse Martindale Hubbell” directory is getting some attention as it tries to match would-be plaintiffs to trial lawyers.
Prospective plaintiffs looking for a lawyer can visit SueEasy.com, select a category of lawsuit and create a profile. The idea is that lawyers who are hunting for business will find clients through the profiles, sort of like a jobs board or dating site.
Will the site catch on? Check It Out, a New Orleans Times-Picayune blog, notes that it will, at a minimum, succeed in making tort reformers see red.
Legal Blog Watch summarizes the sentiments of the legal blogging community, which characterizes SueEasy.com as a “Shangri-La for ambulance chasers” (TechCrunch); Match.com for lawyers and litigants (Above the Law) and “the worst lawyer idea ever” (New York Personal Injury Law Blog).
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy and Overlawyered blogger, is quoted as saying that he’s concerned about quality control.
“If this were a dating service,” Olson says, “you’d have to wonder—whichever side of the dating you were on—what kind of dunce are they going to bring me?”
SueEasy.com promises to “take away the hassles involved with finding expert legal help” and is a first step toward resolving grievances and “instant legal bliss.”
“No Yellow Pages scrambling, frantic phone calls or confusing Internet searches.”
