limited liability company industry legal services founded 1995 headquarters syracuse new york key people james l. alexander peter catalano products personal injury legal representation number of employees 8 attorneys plus support staff website firm website alexander & catalano is an upstate new york based law firm practicing in the area of personal injury and worker s compensation related cases . the firm is headquartered in syracuse but also has offices in rochester . the law firm was notorious for their advertising campaigns using unrealistic depictions such as their lawyers representing space aliens in court as portraying themselves as godzilla esque giants in a city or as blurs of light running to reach a client quickly . in 2007 the firm came under fire for its advertising techniques which also included the use of lasers and smoke as well as for the use of their trademarked slogan the heavy hitters licensed from florida advertising agency group matrix 1 . 2 the advertising of alexander and catalano as well as that of jim the hammer shapiro were cited by the democrat and chronicle as reasons for the january 2007 amendment of the code of professional responsibility by the new york state office of court administration 3 which is responsible for attorney regulation and discipline in new york state . the new rules prohibited the use of certain types of advertising methods including client testimonials slogans and nicknames and portraying lawyers with characteristics unrelated to legal counsel . 4 in june of that year alexander and catalano along with public citizen filed a lawsuit in us district court charging that the new rules violated the firm s first amendment rights . 5 senior us district court judge frederick scullin ruled that certain provisions of the new rules including prohibiting the use of nicknames in advertising did indeed violate their first amendment right to freedom of speech . 6 a similar attorney advertising case surrounding the use of client testimonials also occurred in ohio . 7 references edit ontv . group matrix . retrieved 2012 05 29 . p. 3 democratandchronicle.com . democrat and chronicle . 2007 02 01 . retrieved 2012 05 29 . dead link p. 6 joel stashenko 2007 04 17 . suit over n.y. rules on lawyer advertising goes to trial . law.com . retrieved 2012 05 29 . firstamendmentcenter.org news archived july 25 2008 at the wayback machine . firstamendmentcenter.org news archived september 23 2005 at the wayback machine . external links edit wsyr abc 9 report on the court case retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alexander % 26 catalano & oldid 737966043 categories law firms established in 1995companies based in syracuse new yorklaw firms based in new yorkhidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from may 2012articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 september 2016 at 03 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view