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"&ldquo;HIT BY A SEMI?&rdquo; That&rsquo;s the headline on a billboard beneath a dramatic picture of a massive red tractor-trailer slamming into a small green car.&nbsp;<br /><br />Below the headline are the words &ldquo;DON&rsquo;T SETTLE FOR LESS!&rdquo; and a phone number consisting of an area code, a prefix, and the word HURT (followed by the corresponding four numbers in smaller type).<br /><br />To the left of all that is the logo of San Antonio law firm Villarreal &amp; Begum.<br /><br />It&rsquo;s a billboard that &ndash; by capturing the attention of drivers, and distracting them from the rush of traffic around them &ndash; could very well cause the sort of accident it illustrates.<br /><br />One can only imagine the negative effect it has on truckers in transit.<br /><br />The billboard is but one element of a multimedia campaign designed to drum up business for Villarreal &amp; Begum by trashing teamsters.<br /><br />A full-page ad in the June issue of the men&rsquo;s magazine <i>Maxim</i> features a Stephen King-like head-on view of another massive red truck emerging from the darkness. In big letters above the cab are the words &ldquo;serial killer.&rdquo;<br /><br />&ldquo;3,561 people died on America&rsquo;s highways last year,&rdquo; says the text below the truck. &ldquo;Another 2.36 million were injured. You need a law firm you can Trust. You need Experience. You need Strength. You need Villarreal &amp; Begum.&hellip;&rdquo;<br /><br />Major truck stop chains have pulled the magazine from their shelves and <i>Maxim</i> has issued an abject apology.<br /><br />The ad doesn&rsquo;t explain why anyone would trust a law firm that is so classless as to engage in such sleazy advertising or so clueless as to defame every member of a vital occupation with an excellent safety record.<br /><br />All it really communicates is that the attorneys who authorized the ad are semi-conscious, and that anyone who would want to be represented by them would have to be semi-conscious, too."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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