Monday, December 12, 2011

Markets in Everything: eBay of Lawyering

The Tax Prof blog features a Chronicle of Higher Education story (paid subscription required) about Shpoonkle,  a "matchmaking Web site where recent law graduates could hone their legal skills by bidding alongside other lawyers for clients seeking affordable counsel." Shpoonkle operates as "a reverse-auction site where potential clients describe legal problems and lawyers bid to see who can solve them for the lowest price."

Lawyer Scott Greenfield is not a Shpoonkle ("the eBay of lawyering") fan  and writes on his Simple Justice blog: "The name is absolutely awful.  The concept far worse."

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