{"id":3396,"date":"2011-06-20T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:19:35","slug":"delivering-a-lawyer-within-15-minutes-soda-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=3396","title":{"rendered":"“Delivering a Lawyer Within 15 Minutes (Soda Extra)”"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the title of\u00a0 June 17, 2011 New York Times piece<\/a> by John Schwartz.<\/p>\n

I’m stepping aside from Sidebar, slightly, here because the “If I want a pizza, I can get a pizza in 15 minutes…I can get a plumber in the middle of the night. Why can’t I get a lawyer?” raison d’etre <\/em>of the instant-lawyer mogul named Chris Miles (the company is called LawyerUp) is to provide fast lawyers to criminal clients. And Sidebar confronts civil problems, not criminal.<\/p>\n

It’s enterprising, for sure. For a monthly fee, the potential criminal client can subscribe to Miles’s service, and he even has an app. (I’m trying to be jealous of people who have apps.)<\/p>\n

But since Miles’s service covers southern New England, I have two questions: first, don’t courts in big cities have lawyers hanging around at night, ready to handle initial criminal procedures?<\/p>\n

And second, although we New Yorkers can certainly get a pizza and a plumber in the middle of the night, can Miles — in Easton, Connecticut? Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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