Personal Injury Plagiarist
Hayman & Kirshenbaum are the sort who make personal injury lawyers seem no better than common crooks and scoundrels.
Why do I say such a thing? Take a look at their untitled blog, which is chock full of news reports about accidents and such.
Here’s the intro to their latest post:
It was a driver’s education course, about seven years too soon.
When I read that, I thought, “What a classy way to start a story. Either Hayman, or Kirshenbaum, or someone on their staff has an education in journalism.”
I browsed a few more of their posts, and then I turned suspicious. “This isn’t their work. Based on other things published by H & K, it just can’t be.”
Sure enough, their latest post was stolen from the NBC station in Chicago. Take a look at what NBC published and compare it to what H & K published.
It turns out that the H & K blog consists of not much more than news stories stolen from others.
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Update: on 4 January 2009, Hayman & Kirshenbaum deleted that article they lifted from NBC. However, they still have plenty of other stuff at their site that’s not theirs.
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