Lawyer who claimed he was voted `#1 in Client Satisfaction´ hit with misconduct finding
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An Ontario personal injury lawyer who claimed on his website that he was voted “#1 in Client Satisfaction� and boasted of winning “millions and millions of dollars� for his clients has been found to have committed professional misconduct by the province’s legal regulator.Brian Goldfinger, of Goldfinger Injury Lawyers, was reprimanded in June and ordered to pay $5,000 in costs after the Law Society of Ontario’s Tribunal found problems with his marketing practices.In late 2017 the law society alleged Goldfinger promoted himself using awards that were not “bona fide� or that were likely to be “misleading, confusing or deceptive.� The law society also alleged the lawyer’s marketing was “improper� in that it was likely to leave the impression that his firm was larger than it was, and that the lawyer’s marketing referred to results obtained for past clients “without any disclaimer indicating that past results are not necessarily indicative of future results.�The agreed statement of facts in the case says the law society “does not suggest that the lawyer was dishonest or intentionally deceptive in his marketing practices. Nonetheless, the law society seeks a finding that the lawyer committed professional misconduct.�In a statement on his website, Goldfinger said the resolution of the case “allows me to focus wholly on helping my clients and growing my thriving business.“The rules we have to follow are sometimes ambiguous and leave room for interpretation. They are also frequently updated. Growing firms like mine need to be extra careful to keep up and ensure compliance,� Goldfinger’s statement reads.His statement goes on to say that when he was notified about concerns with his advertising, he “moved swiftly and voluntarily to rectify them.� He said the law society has “struggled for decades with what constitutes permissib ...