The Greatest American Lawyer (GAL) continues to be The Greatest American Defendant as the old Second Wave law firm with which he use to work continues to sue him for a number of things related to his leaving. In what appears to be a whose-your-daddy type of move, GAL's old (and I like that term) law firm has sued him again, and his blog site is one of the key basis of the lawsuit filed. Apparently, the old firm believes it was harmed by GAL taking his little blog with him, even though it does not appear to be in any way related to the firm. But, now that we have a genuine Blog Fight on our hands, GAL raises some interesting points, namely who owns your blog?
In GAL's case it seems like such a personal blog. Although he is likely to officially reveal himself soon, he is anonymous, as is his current law firm and his former law firm. So, what is the fight about? Are they fighting over who gets the be an anonymous lawyer? I can see were the old firm has likely lost a lot of anonymous clients over this. Maybe they can take over the blog and post an anonymous map on their site so the anonymous clients can find their anonymous office.
I think the fight is probably over the name of the blog. The old firm wants to be The Greatest American Lawyer. But, you know that is really not fair because who is to say that either of these Titans are The Greatest American Lawyer. Should we not get an opportunity to bid for the title? Maybe all of us law bloggers should intervene in the suit and battle out who is in fact The Greatest American Lawyer.
I just do not think this suit would fly much in Texas. Besides, apart from GAL's entertaining content, which I like and read, we are talking about a Typepad account, and a Typepad template that the old firm could set up and replicate in an hour or less. Well, first they would probably have to familiarize themselves with a computer and a little thing called the Internet. That could take some time. Look, the point is that I figured out Typepad. So, that means you could teach a monkey if you had enough bananas.
It all sounds a little ridiculous to me. Cannot GAL and the senior partner of the old firm just have a dual like they did in the old days when someone felt their honor had been beseeched. And, is that not what we have here. Certainly, we are not talking about proprietary things or content that has any lasting value. We are talking about someone's hobby in a way. Maybe if he plays golf, they can sue GAL to take that away from him saying that he learned to play golf, or perfected his short game, while working for the firm.
Has the old firm read the No Asshole Rule by Bob Sutton. It might be like looking in the mirror.
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