July 28, 2010 11:51 AM

RIP Levinson Axelrod Really Sucks

Posted by Zach Lowe

The New Jersey personal injury firm Levinson Axelrod had made it clear it was committed to a long courtroom fight against an ex-associate who started a gripe site bashing the firm last year. With the litigation going badly, that associate, Edward Heyburn, agreed to a confidential settlement in which he agreed to take down www.levinsonaxelrodreallysucks.com. The rest of the settlement terms are undisclosed, but Heyburn also took down a Twitter account he used to criticize the firm, according to The New Jersey Law Journal, one of our sibling publications. 

The firm fired Heyburn in 2004 after it got wind of his plans to leave. Heyburn stayed quiet for five years but put all of his pent-up rage into his anti-Levinson gripe site, which mocked firm partners (one was compared to a "used car salesman," another looked "like death") and produced mockumentaries using promotional videos swiped from the firm's real Web site, according to our prior reporting. The firm was not happy, and it sued Heyburn for just about everything possible--trademark infringement, cybersquatting, trademark dilution, violation of competition laws, and a pile of other charges. Heyburn moved his site from levinsonaxelrod.net to get around some of the trademark claims and filed a motion to dismiss the firm's case. A judge denied most of that motion in May, and Heyburn and the firm came to a confidential settlement sometime last month, the NJLJ says. 

Score one for persistence, we suppose. 

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