Comments on: Judge Dismisses Browne v. Avvo

By: City of Houston

City of Houston — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:12:03 +0000

Who can you trust? Good ethical lawyers are a dime a dozen.

By: S. Baum

S. Baum — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:51:57 +0000

Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:58:04 +0000

Thanks for making this site

By: Stuart MacDonald

Stuart MacDonald — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:24:01 +0000

Well done Mark. So, how will this impact the Other Guy’s Avvo rating?

(JOKE! THIS IS A JOKE!)

Happy Holidays,
Stuart

By: Lawrence N. Rogak

Lawrence N. Rogak — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:59:55 +0000

This case brings to mind the attorney who sued the date-rating website — what’s it called? — dontdatehimgirl.com? — for posting ratings from women who called him a lousy date. By bringing the suit, the idiot got enough publicity to let the entire country know that a lot of women consider him a lousy date. Suppressing negative opinions about oneself in this information-saturated age just doesn’t work. Outright slander is one thing, of course, but if mere negative opinions could be suppressed we’d all be in trouble. Could it be that some attorneys are just such control freaks that they need to silence all critics? Mmmmmm…. yeah, I think so. I’ve met ‘em. I’ve even dated some of ‘em.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:20:30 +0000

Congrats to Mark and the Avvo team!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:49:38 +0000

Congratulations Mark and team Avvo!
It’s nice to see the good guys win one.

By: Online Liability Blog

Online Liability Blog — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:01:05 +0000

Congrats, Mark, to you and your team.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:19:24 +0000

[fair disclosure -- Mark and I are friends and former colleagues from Expedia, Inc.]

CONGRATULATIONS, Mark.

I’ve felt pretty strongly that companies, authors, and yes, even websites ought to be allowed to rate and rank services/products/people… even if those ratings are not precisely as someone else might calculate them.

Over time, consumers (and the press, and the attorney community) will determine how personally-relevant and accurate the Avvo rating is, and Avvo’s brand will either be elevated or diminished as a result. But I strongly feel you folks have every right to create and publicize it, and said as much on this board many months ago. Keep on shining the flashlight in the dark — the market, and not class-action lawyers, should be the entity that tells you whether you’re on the right track.