tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post1574130537777746126..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-35985601765216759672015-02-19T19:09:22.633-05:002015-02-19T19:09:22.633-05:00&quot;In looking for new candidates to add to the list, it looks at &quot;region, gender and ethnicity&quot; in order to promote diversity&quot;<br /><br />Allow me to translate: region means outside of Indy. Gender means without a male appendage. Ethnicity means with an accent other than English, Canadian or Southern. Promoting diversity means anything but a GOP conservative worldview.<br /><br />Of course Race figures in, amazing it was not mentioned. Now, if they meant religion instead of region, or if the host mistyped religion as region, well I can translate that as well. It would mean anything but Christianity. <br /><br />Glad I could be of help.bjbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01704440895126815440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-77246163057106126442015-02-17T18:06:02.161-05:002015-02-17T18:06:02.161-05:00Well guys, you can carp all you want, but I had Linda Pence - front and center in the photo - represent me and I am highly, greatly satisfied with her performance.<br />Did I perhaps pay a premium? Sure. But there are times when you don&#39;t shop for bargains. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-56114876334429809692015-02-16T20:40:12.151-05:002015-02-16T20:40:12.151-05:00could this magical list at least guide me to selecting a well connected attorney? who needs a real lawyer when so much can be bought behind closed doors in this state. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-728237012423696372015-02-16T20:26:48.747-05:002015-02-16T20:26:48.747-05:00IBJ doesn&#39;t have anything to do with the Super Lawyers publication. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-30037717157473242172015-02-16T20:21:38.132-05:002015-02-16T20:21:38.132-05:00IBJ, the parent company, charges for the People section. I&#39;m thinking that Gary called this right-on! <br /><br />Pay-to-Play in this game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-68089715335798894592015-02-16T20:11:22.496-05:002015-02-16T20:11:22.496-05:00it basically means that if you <br />don&#39;t bump your hourly up from $275 to $450 because of this designation, that you&#39;ve got a tiny smidgeon<br />of integrity still left. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-33174557460711997442015-02-16T18:54:35.153-05:002015-02-16T18:54:35.153-05:00I know people on that list who failed the bar exam two or three times before they finally passed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-18225210691326117012015-02-16T18:51:49.111-05:002015-02-16T18:51:49.111-05:00Businesses who play the Angie&#39;s List game of buying high ratings know it&#39;s a racket. They play along simply to protect themselves damage to their reputations caused by by online customer reviews, which may have been added to the list by employees of Angie&#39;s List for all the business owner knows. Angie&#39;s List build up and protects service providers who are paying them for advertising since the revenues they get from service providers far outpace what they get from consumers. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-57808860846721498812015-02-16T18:46:57.292-05:002015-02-16T18:46:57.292-05:00I agree the MH ratings are equally as useless. If you aren&#39;t rated, MH allows you to pick a group of lawyers to rate you so you can get the rating you desire. Any time I&#39;m sent a list of attorneys to rate, I usually close it out without rating a single lawyer because there is nobody on the list I know enough about to competently rate. Knowing who the person is does not give me knowledge of their legal abilities. Yet MH ratings are basically performed by friends of lawyers who help each other achieve the ratings they desire. The bigger law firms actually coordinate the ratings of lawyers among each other. You will see young attorneys who&#39;ve never stepped in a courtroom after a short time practicing with high ratings simply because they were the beneficiary of a coordinated effort to land them a rating that is essentially meaningless. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8966140813382289872015-02-16T16:29:19.032-05:002015-02-16T16:29:19.032-05:00No different than Mart-Hub...... and arguably more vetting happens with SL. I&#39;ve been asked to rate more often by SL than MH. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58665551674800915672015-02-16T16:16:20.877-05:002015-02-16T16:16:20.877-05:00Kinda like a business that pays Angie&#39;s List to advertise and gets bumped up in the ratings.C. Roger Cseenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-7162539654112860652015-02-16T15:00:34.455-05:002015-02-16T15:00:34.455-05:00How many millions did Super Lawyer Bill Conour steal from his clients before he got sent to prison and disbarred?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-63136449243492359972015-02-16T14:55:16.240-05:002015-02-16T14:55:16.240-05:00Certainly no disrespect to you and Paul Ogden, but I learned long ago that most lawyers are &quot;nothing but a fraud on the public&quot;.<br /><br />There is one especially on my mind whose wife now enables him to enjoy a national taxpayer treasure chest instead of merely a Marion County one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com