Revere lawyer to pay $625G for misleading ads

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2. If you hold someone liable, the news reports about the fine may at least scare others.

If you hold no one liable, you may as well send crooked lawyers a registered letter saying they have a license to do this.

In the shoes of the judge, I may have imposed a jail sentence, if the law allowed me to do that. If the law did not allow me to do that, I would have noted that omission in my opinion and urged the legislature to change the law.

I hope the lawyers directly involved at least got disbarred or suspended, too. If not, why the hell not?

Some crooks in all fields, like corporations, view a fine simply as a cost of doing a very profitable business. I knew someone who operated that way as far as lawsuits. He'd screw people, knowing he was giving them grounds to sue. He figured either they would not sue at all or he could settle the suit for half the money involved. Either way, he'd net more money than if he did not screw people.