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- BUSINESS, Page 45Business NotesADVERTISINGHow Dull Can You Be?
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- In Florida those pushy lawyers who hawk themselves on TV
- will have to amend their ways. As of Jan. 1, a new set of rules
- put a virtual gag on attorneys pushing their services on the
- tube. They are forbidden to use dramatic scenes, slogans,
- endorsements from clients, plugs from celebrities, moving
- pictures -- in short, just about anything of greater interest
- than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to
- include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they
- shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first
- place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules,
- says the dial-a-lawyer ads mislead consumers and influence
- juries by creating the impression that personal-injury cases
- are motivated by greed.
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