I am suspicious of any lawyer who uses the honorific “Dr.” because he holds a juris doctor degree (the same degree that all lawyers get from law school). Lawyers don’t use that honorific.
And most of us use “Esq.” only when it is necessary so that the person reading the document will understand that the person who wrote or signed the document is a lawyer (that is often very important for the persons involved to know).
Also, that’s a mighty windy cv with no real major accomplishments. Also, what in the world is a “general practice with a concentration in constitutional strategy”? Doesn’t sound like that would put much bread on the table.
Way too much trouble to watch crummy videos. Well reasoned written arguments are much better.
The Esquire honorific is what has long puzzled me. Evidently, no very great number of lawyers prior to my own lifetime had thought that the honorific was needed to signal special status as a signatory on a document.
(I realize that some sort of signal is needed on documents, but my recollection from my own expert witness work in the 1980s is that the signature block typically had a printed/typed phrase such as "Attorney-at-Law." That is much more dignified, in my opinion, than Esquire [which is a feudal term that ordinarily refered to landed gentry, I believe].
And most of us use “Esq.” only when it is necessary so that the person reading the document will understand that the person who wrote or signed the document is a lawyer (that is often very important for the persons involved to know).
This guy looks like a fine guy on our side of the table. But if you parse his credentialing, he actually looks like a marginal legal authority.
Except Esquire is not a title for lawyer, there isn’t one. It is something they started using at one point as an attempt to distinguish themselves from “common” folk. Frankly, it makes them sound like gay “escorts”.
...from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa
How does one do that, exactly? It's a fraternity, not a degree or other qualification, after all. Is he a Master of Beer Chugging?
But a professor on a faculty does, and deserves the honor. He's teaching law, not just practicing it. Before one is a lawyer, he/she is a student. Most lawyers are not teachers. Duh! Check out his curriculum vitae -- a bit more than a local divorce lawyer, eh?
Not in social circles, certainly; but what about in the academic setting?
(Although I would more likely expect them to be called "professor"?)
Right or wrong, I know of a few who have done this, but in all cases it was a professor in an academic setting.
Just askin'.
But in any case, I agree about the "Esq."