Louisiana Backs Down on New Ethics Rules Which Ignore the First Amendment

As soon as Louisiana announced new lawyer advertising rules that, among other things, set out an outright ban on lawyers advertising past results (without any evidence whatsoever of harm to the public) it was sued.

Twice.

Now it has backed down, announcing that it won't implement the rules for several months while the constitutinal issues get 'worked out.'

One of the lawyers suing the bar is blogging about it here.

If only state bars would spend a fraction of the money the spend on trying to regulate lawyer advertising on simply (1) educating the pubic about how to find a good lawyer (2) enforcing existing rules they wouldn't have to try to throw out the First Amendment. Louisiana attorneys should be screaming at their mandatory bar for wasting dues defending these lawsuit. They should drop the proposed changes.