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Thanks to Avvo for quoting me in Mary Fetzer's 4/5/16 article "What's Hurting Education the Most?" My remarks concern teacher tenure & its impact on education--"The Tenure Debate." What’s hurting education the most? April 5, 2016; By Mary Fetzer Many believe that America needs conservative education reform, and that control of our schools needs to [...]
Today, I got a response from Avvo to yesterday’s post (and other posts) criticizing them. Below is the comment to that post. Conrad from Avvo said, December 5, 2010 @ 10:26 am Charles – not every lawyer appreciates the transparency that Avvo has brought to the legal industry, yet this is exactly what consumers want and [...]
Because of my public criticism of Avvo, and their defective rating system, I get a lot of comments about them. A brief summary of my crticism is that it’s biased against small and solo firms because larger firms have greater wherewithal to manage the extremely cumbersome Avvo profile process, and because Avvo won’t let an [...]
On the heels of my most recent Avvo post, over the past week, I received the following communications from an attorney who wishes to remain anonymous and who has had his own difficulties with Avvo’s bizarre rating and registration system. My chief criticism, and why I primarily think it’s a scam, is because you can’t [...]
Evidently, there are more attorneys and members of the public who are disappointed and upset with Avvo’s attorney rating system. I won’t link to Avvo here because I’m not interested in driving traffic to their site. Some visitors to my site get here by using Avvo related searches linking to my posts from a couple [...]
As an addendum to my last post about Avvo, check out the following: Besides taking an extraordinary amount of time to complete a profile, and besides not being able to cancel an account (i.e., "unclaim" a profile), I've discovered another issue with Avvo's online lawyer rating system. When a lawyer is in the back-end of [...]
After reading a recent Chicago Tribune article regarding Avvo’s (www.Avvo.com) online lawyer rating system, I decided to check out the site for myself. At first glance, the site looks interesting, useful and credible. The same as many other online consumer, ratings, networking and other business related sites. I enjoy these sites, use them and believe [...]
I'm excited to be moderating this seven webinar series for 2023! About This Series If you have employees or advise employers, these webinars are for you! No employer—whether large, medium or small—is immune from the reach of federal, state and local employment laws and regulations. Now, more than ever, employers should consider taking a proactive [...]
ME IN THE MEDIA Cases, Awards, Media, Public Presentations & Seminars 2021 Decalogue Society of Lawyers Presidential Citation for individuals who have helped to improve the Decalogue Society of Lawyers through their innovative thinking and actions or who have made some notable or important contribution that enhanced the Society or furthered its goals [...]
