{"id":136,"date":"2008-11-10T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-11-10T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:30:50","slug":"the-cost-of-being-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/the-cost-of-being-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Being Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, two Washington state lawyers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.justia.com\/cases\/featured\/washington\/wawdce\/2:2007cv00920\/144356\/\">sued Avvo<\/a>, an attorney rating website, over the scores that Avvo had assigned to their profiles.  Although Avvo managed to obtain a successful conclusion to the case within 6 months by convincing the judge to <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/district-courts\/washington\/wawdce\/2:2007cv00920\/144356\/19\/0.html\">grant<\/a> its motion to dismiss, it still cost Avvo a pretty penny to prevail.  Now, we know exactly how much it cost Avvo thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/dockets.justia.com\/docket\/court-wawdce\/case_no-2:2008cv01597\/case_id-155301\/\">lawsuit<\/a> filed by Avvo against its insurer that disclosed that Avvo had spent $134,000 in fees, costs and expenses defending the Browne v. Avvo suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, two Washington state lawyers sued Avvo, an attorney rating website, over the scores that Avvo had assigned to their profiles. Although Avvo managed to obtain a successful conclusion to the case within 6 months by convincing the judge to grant its motion to dismiss, it still cost Avvo a pretty penny to prevail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114],"tags":[30,32,124],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}