Lawyer Advertising: Headline: “Combined Experience”

Allow me to decipher this headline for you. ‘Combined experience’ refers to the total amount of experience in the whole law firm if you combined each of the attorney’s number of years practicing law. So, a firm could be run by one older, semi-retired lawyer who has been practicing law for 50 years and an army of younger lawyers who each have 5 years of experience or less. Or 20 lawyers who each have 5 years of experience. Or any number of combinations. And once you sign on the dotted line your case will probably be handled by a junior member of the team. Can you trust a law firm that would use this kind of sly, deceptive messaging?