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You can’t write a bill to force lawyers to be lawyers and not make Leno

Friday, January 30, 2009, 08:05 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hat tip to Blog for Democracy on this: A bill by State Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland) to bar actors from playing lawyers in all ambulance-chasing ads is now stirring dust in Hollywood.

Below is NBC’s Jay Leno from Wednesday night. The measure of which he speaks is S.B. 41, which — among other things — would require that “the face and voice appearing in the advertisement shall be of a duly licensed attorney.”

Robert Vaughn would have to get by on his very thin “Man From U.N.C.L.E.” residuals. Or go to law school.

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