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I've been away for a while, so maybe this has been shared. I'm aware of the allegations in general, but hadn't seen this before. Has anyone else seen this ad anywhere?

I still find these allegations difficult to believe.

 
I'd like to hear how any of their lives were destroyed to the point of needing financial compensation because they received a possibly unnecessasry (by today's standards) prostate exam from a doctor as part of a general physical.
Well, maybe you can find out when the court date is and go have a listen. I'm pretty sure that's what that whole process is about, right?
 
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First of all, that closes the loop on why Tim Garl was not retained. Also, I’m surprised that an ad was used to find more victims. Can they not find all the contact info of the former players and ask them directly? Is this an attempt to sway public opinion?
 
No, it's an attempt to get clients.

Well, I said ‘victims’, and you say ‘clients’. Potato potato. My question remains. They can find and contact those clients directly, or is there some legal process here that makes that illegal? I don’t know.
 
Looks like an attempt to sway public opinion to me, assumes and claims there are victims, in hopes Indiana University wants to settle rather than see their name dragged through the mud even more publicly.

I didn't know you could run ads trolling for clients by assuming bad things. I guess it used to be done by mail, so is similar, just much more public.
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Looks like an attempt to sway public opinion to me, assumes and claims there are victims, in hopes Indiana University wants to settle rather than see their name dragged through the mud even more publicly.

I didn't know you could run ads trolling for clients by assuming bad things. I guess it used to be done by mail, so is similar, just much more public.
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Do you not drive on public roads? Every other billboard is advertising an injury law firm. I think it used to be banned, or at least severely discouraged by the Bar Association but those days are long gone. And they don't give a rat's ass about your victimhood or pain and suffering, they just want their fee of 50% of the settlement.
 
Someone should make a business selling leads to attorneys for 'victims' of every team Indiana competes with to discourage recruits from going there. Side bonus make some cash.

Put up billboards in every schools prime area - 'We're you harmed by Ryan Day? Were you harmed by the Ohio State medical team? Call 555-5555 for an attorney who will fight for you!'
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First of all, that closes the loop on why Tim Garl was not retained. Also, I’m surprised that an ad was used to find more victims. Can they not find all the contact info of the former players and ask them directly? Is this an attempt to sway public opinion?
Keep in mind that Bomba had a private practice, so they may be seeking people that were not basketball players.

Either way, IU has nothing to do with this and IU isn't going to turn over a list of basketball alumni to a law firm to help them find more clients to potentially sue Bomba and Garl.

I Saw an ad many months ago, when this first came out, from a different firm that used a photo of Bomba from several decades ago while practicing medicine. This ad is just dumb...they should fire their creative team.
 
First of all, that closes the loop on why Tim Garl was not retained. Also, I’m surprised that an ad was used to find more victims. Can they not find all the contact info of the former players and ask them directly? Is this an attempt to sway public opinion?
This isn't even the same firm that filed the original claim. They're a different firm copycatting the claim and looking for additional potential claimants so they can file a similar suit (if they find any additional claimants)

This may not have anything to do with Garl. They might have just read that Garl wasn't renewed and decided to throw his name on there to fish in a second pond.
 
This isn't even the same firm that filed the original claim. They're a different firm copycatting the claim and looking for additional potential claimants so they can file a similar suit (if they find any additional claimants)

This may not have anything to do with Garl. They might have just read that Garl wasn't renewed and decided to throw his name on there to fish in a second pond.
Garl was named by one of the later complainants, so I think is probably does have to do with him. But he was named as someone who was told/aware of it and did nothing.
 
First of all, that closes the loop on why Tim Garl was not retained. Also, I’m surprised that an ad was used to find more victims. Can they not find all the contact info of the former players and ask them directly? Is this an attempt to sway public opinion?
That's a law firm with the principal partner being a Meatchicken grad 2x. Wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't a big FU from him to the IU fanbase. In the big picture, it costs pocket change to run Facebook ads.
 
Seems to me Garl and Bomba should countersue for defamation.

"Were you a victim of Cavanaugh's egregious claims about Indiana basketball recruits? Did it cause you to get your hopes up only to be let down? And did those same overhyped recruits fizzle out, transfer, sit the bench, get injured, have a baby, or all 5? Then call the law offices of 6Bannerknockin' to get immediate redemption"
 
To me it is very impressive how lawyers have completely failed to police their own. As the most common profession of our congress is lawyer we will never see laws change.
 
To me it is very impressive how lawyers have completely failed to police their own. As the most common profession of our congress is lawyer we will never see laws change.
We aren't allowed to police our own. That's the Supreme court's job. Vote no next time they come up for retention.

I reported an attorney for advertising violations once. The disciplinary commission responded by sending me a letter explaining the lawyer went ahead and fixed their violation, so there was no need for the DC to address it further. The letter I received wasn't even addressed to me. That's how much they care.
 
Well, I said ‘victims’, and you say ‘clients’. Potato potato. My question remains. They can find and contact those clients directly, or is there some legal process here that makes that illegal? I don’t know.
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Getting in on or putting together class action. Money-making bs? I mean, I guess, What isn’t?
 
To me it is very impressive how lawyers have completely failed to police their own. As the most common profession of our congress is lawyer we will never see laws change.
Lawyers come a dime-a-dozen. Grad schools can’t crank ‘em out fast enough. Society sits on a powder keg of lawsuits just waiting for a match. Anybody can be sued for anything.

All professions protect their own. They’re glued in a common bond of self-preservation. It’s a long-winded ‘safety in numbers’ thing, a quirk in evolution best saved in further conversation for a rainy day dripped in boredom, if not another epoch or two.

Everyone has a mischievous gremlin on their wing. Danger lies with the gremlin no one else sees.
 
Lawyers come a dime-a-dozen. Grad schools can’t crank ‘em out fast enough. Society sits on a powder keg of lawsuits just waiting for a match. Anybody can be sued for anything.

All professions protect their own. They’re glued in a common bond of self-preservation. It’s a long-winded ‘safety in numbers’ thing, a quirk in evolution best saved in further conversation for a rainy day dripped in boredom, if not another epoch or two.

Everyone has a mischievous gremlin on their wing. Danger lies with the gremlin no one else sees.

They both protect their own, e.g. requiring lawyer to do real estate closings, and eat their own, e.g. judges and bar associations love to f lawyers.
 
Lawyers come a dime-a-dozen. Grad schools can’t crank ‘em out fast enough. Society sits on a powder keg of lawsuits just waiting for a match. Anybody can be sued for anything.

All professions protect their own. They’re glued in a common bond of self-preservation. It’s a long-winded ‘safety in numbers’ thing, a quirk in evolution best saved in further conversation for a rainy day dripped in boredom, if not another epoch or two.

Everyone has a mischievous gremlin on their wing. Danger lies with the gremlin no one else sees.
I got into a car accident and a week later i got letters in the mail from random lawyers asking me if i was hurt. They clearly get a police report and pounce. But several guys on this site would say both are guilty as charged because to them allegations is all that matters. Not to get political but both probably had kavanough and duke lacrosse guilty as sin on day one
 
I got into a car accident and a week later i got letters in the mail from random lawyers asking me if i was hurt. They clearly get a police report and pounce. But several guys on this site would say both are guilty as charged because to them allegations is all that matters. Not to get political but both probably had kavanough and duke lacrosse guilty as sin on day one

Lawyers don’t normally do that and I’ve been practicing 20 years and I’ve never heard of it. Unless there is some state out there that allows solicitation, which would surprise me, they could get disbarred for that. Not sure why they would risk that not even knowing if you are hurt or if you would retain them. What state was that?
 
Lawyers don’t normally do that and I’ve been practicing 20 years and I’ve never heard of it. Unless there is some state out there that allows solicitation, which would surprise me, they could get disbarred for that. Not sure why they would risk that not even knowing if you are hurt or if you would retain them. What state was that?
Arizona. I got two random letters in the mail. It seemed pretty shady to me my sister is lawyer and said the same thing. It was not even my it was my for my kid who was in the accident. It basically said if you are hurt contact us
 
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Arizona. I got two random letters in the mail. It seemed pretty shady to me my sister is lawyer and said the same thing. It was not even my it was my for my kid who was in the accident

It’s very shady. It’s not a common practice. I’ll look up Arizona’s ethics rules. Maybe they allow it.
 
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I got into a car accident and a week later i got letters in the mail from random lawyers asking me if i was hurt. They clearly get a police report and pounce. But several guys on this site would say both are guilty as charged because to them allegations is all that matters. Not to get political but both probably had kavanough and duke lacrosse guilty as sin on day one
Some lawyers buy lists of people in recent accidents or who were recently arrested and then mail them direct mail ads. In Indiana they are form letters that must be filed with the Supreme Court ahead of time. It works for some guys, if they have time and or staff to stuff the envelopes and money for all the postage.
 
Lawyers don’t normally do that and I’ve been practicing 20 years and I’ve never heard of it. Unless there is some state out there that allows solicitation, which would surprise me, they could get disbarred for that. Not sure why they would risk that not even knowing if you are hurt or if you would retain them. What state was that?
Indiana allows direct mail solicitation. I don't do it but some of my competitors do.
 
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