Portrait of a Failed Lawyer and Failed Web Designer

There's this guy. Let's call him Hans Jawb. He graduates law school but he can't be part of a law firm for some reason, so he starts one of these paralegal places that hands out forms but can't dispense legal opinions. Well something happens with that business. Can't say what. What do people do when they fail real bad in the real world? They take up web design.

What happens if they also can't design or create content? Well, they view the web like the Sudatenland and annex content. Then a writer finds that their content was poached and calls him on it. This is this the reply:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: theftstudio.com Inc. [President, Hans Jawb]
Date: Aug 18, 2005
Subject: RE: Improper use of Copyrighted Material
To: Victim, team@theftstudio.com


Frankly Victim I think you take yourself just a tad too serious.

I alone take full responsibility for the content that is and has been on this page for numerous years now and if you have an issue with that then you can pursue whatever options you think you may have.

I practiced law for 20 years and if you can convince a court that you have copyright over those 2 sentences of fact then I'll be happy to pay you court-ordered costs and damages.

Good luck :-)

Hans Jawb. LL.B.
President & CEO
www.theftstudio.com Inc.
1-877-275-589_

When the Law Society (basically the province's equivalent of the bar association) was asked about Hans and his 20 years of practising law, this was their reply:

....

I confirm that Mr. Jawb is not currently nor has ever been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia. That, of course, does not mean that he has not practised law in some other jurisdiction and you would have to make enquiries of either Mr. Jawb directly or other jurisdictions to determine if he has practised elsewhere.

I trust this answers your question.

Yours truly,

xxx, Complaints Officer
The Law Society of British Columbia

Of course, when you hear "practiced law" the front part of your brain goes "practiced like a lawyer", the back part pipes in, "practiced like a spoon balancer". Turns out Jawb is more the latter. This demonstrates that those who can't do, teach. Ironically, given his thieving ways, much of this piece may end up on his website soon.

Of course, his scams may be exposed. After that, he would have to change it something else like http://www.schoolvictoria.com/ I guess MIT and Stanford don't have to change their names all the time. What does that say about places that seem to always have wet paint on their signs?

tags : tech colleges scams web design