That was Zoe Littlepage’s response to Pfizer’s request to a judge that her law firm remove this video press release about Pfizer’s malfeasance regarding cancer risk of Prempro, their menopause hormone therapy drug. The motion reads, in part, “Plaintiff’s counsel should be compelled to remove this video from the Internet and refrain from making any further inflammatory and prejudicial public statements.”
No word on when the court will make its decision, but Oscar Chase, a professor of legal ethics at New York University School of Law, said a lawyer’s use of YouTube videos to promote his or her case isn’t all that different from a press release.
“We might say it is typical lawyer grandstanding,” Chase said in an interview. “The danger of jury tainting is outweighed by the public’s right to know.”
(Alert readers may recall seeing this video at re:Cycling last month.)
