Not Licensed In Wisconsin

Posted December 18, 2006

You might have seen a one-half page display ad in the Sunday, December 10, 2006, edition of the Milwaukee Journal soliciting the injury cases of Falk workers. You might have thought the ad appeared too soon after three workers were killed and dozens of others injured in the explosion at the Falk Corporation in Milwaukee on December 6th. You might have wondered who the lawyers are. They don't list an office address or a local phone number. Most people reading the ad probably never heard of the law firm, saw an ad for it on television, or in the Milwaukee Yellow Pages. I know of no worthwhile causes it has suppported in the City of Milwaukee.

The law firm that ran the ad may be a very good firm but what the ad doesn't tell you is the law firm is in Houston, Texas. Further, it doesn't tell you that the lawyers in the firm are not licensed to practice law in the State of Wisconsin.

There are several very good law firms in Wisconsin. Some have handled complex cases, resulting in awards of tens of millions of dollars or more. We are not accusing the Houston law firm of doing anything improper. But, do injured Falk workers and their families need a law firm one thousand miles away?

Do the families of Curtis J. Lane, Thomas M. Letendre and Daniel T. Kuster need to go as far away as Houston, Texas, to find a lawyer capable of representing them?

Our advice is not to hire a lawyer based only on an advertisement.