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&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s been barely 30 years since the Supreme Court decided that commercial speech&amp;#8212;&lt;em&gt;even by lawyers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/em&gt;deserved some First Amendment protection. Since then, the various state laws have formed a vague and contradictory patchwork. Yesterday, the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt; took a look at some the resulting absurdities: an ad featuring a UFO and aliens? Ok in South Carolina but forbidden in New York. In Florida, lawyers can use panthers in ads, but pit bulls are a no-no. How about lions? The &lt;i&gt;Journal&lt;/i&gt; quotes Greg Beck, a lawyer with Public Citizen Litigation Group, as saying &amp;#8220;Lions are an open question. Lions can be vicious, but they are also noble. The whole thing is Kafkaesque.&amp;#8221; Only if the lion turns into a beetle, Greg!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The obvious question: how about bears? Thankfully, the brilliant, angry copyranter has been doing the Lord&amp;#8217;s work of&amp;nbsp;tracking the weird fixation by law firms (or the ad agencies they use) on animal imagery. The comments to this post on a Bingham ad produced the alternative caption: &amp;#8220;Bear lawyers who take babies for payment.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;281&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://bp0.blogger.com/__XCWUd8FFjQ/RoEGJyqCGbI/AAAAAAAABJg/uLz9O5rqeCM/s1600/bingham2.jpg&quot; width=&quot;341&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More examples (some of which are banned in Florida): giraffe, ostrich and lion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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