Lawyer Abuse blog reaches 10,000 pageviews

The Lawyer Abuse blog enters its seventh year with a milestone in pageviews. As of January 2020, this blog has reached 10,000 pageviews since it's inception in February 2014.

This viewership is a testament to the Canadian public's interest and concern with two important issues on which this blog reports:

(1) Serious wrongdoing and abuse by lawyers - in this case, Gowlings law firm lawyers Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett.

• Lawyers McMahon and Burnett engaged in a variety of misconduct including, among other wrongdoing, abuse of process, defamation, fraud, malice, and invasion of privacy, in their capacity as opposing defence counsel for Dr. Peter Whidden, who injured the plaintiff and caused her to undergo multiple corrective surgeries. 
• All of McMahon and Burnett's malicious and unmeritorious applications toward the plaintiff, which they brought with intention to harm the plaintiff and misrepresent facts to the court, were properly dismissed by the court in the plaintiff's favour.

(2) The plight of self-represented persons, who now comprise roughly 50% of court litigants.

• Representing oneself and navigating the system presents a number of challenges, which is made all the more difficult when facing unethical opposing lawyers who sometimes take advantage of self-represented persons through scorched earth tactics and abuse of the imbalance of power. 
• In this case, the self-represented plaintiff endured years of abuse at the hands of Gowlings lawyers Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett resulting in significant damages for which the plaintiff seeks justice, first in the medical malpractice lawsuit and now in the lawsuit against the lawyers.

Here are some audience statistics behind the 10K viewership, based on anonymous and aggregated Google Analytics data. While the Lawyer Abuse blog has an international audience, these statistics present the Canadian viewership.

Below is a breakdown of pageviews by province, from February 2014 to January 2020.

The majority of 2019 visitors arrived by organic search (e.g. Google/Bing/Yahoo), followed by direct means (e.g. by bookmark or typing url), and then referrals.

Google Analytics estimates there were slightly more female visitors than male visitors in 2019 with a 53%/47% split.

These were the 10 most visited Lawyer Abuse blog pages last year in 2019:

1. Lawyer Abuse (Home Page)
2. Justice E.C. Wilson Finally Removed From Case
3. Notice of Appeal of Justice Michele Hollins' erroneous decision
4. Lawyer Abuse blog visitor analytics (2019)
5. Law Society of Alberta: Taryn Burnett Remains Under Investigation
6. Brief of the Plaintiff for Recusal of Justice Michele Hollins
7. Defendants Taryn Burnett, Gowlings give contradictory excuses for pulling Plaintiff's credit report
8. Allegations Series Part 1: The Defendants Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett's Fraudulent Misrepresentations and Fraud upon the Court
9. Brief of the Plaintiff Carbone for Removal of Justice E.C. Wilson
10. Supreme Court of Canada endorses Statement of Principles on Self-represented Litigants

If you are new to the Lawyer Abuse blog, you will find summaries of some of the main issues, and claim documents, in the lawsuit against Gowlings lawyers Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett in these previous blog posts:

• Allegations Series Part 1: The Defendants Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett's Fraudulent Misrepresentations and Fraud upon the Court
• Allegations Series Part 2: The Defendants Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett's Abuse of Process, Malice and Bad Faith
• Amended Statement of Claims in lawsuit against Defendants Megan McMahon and Taryn Burnett
• (Original before amendments) Statement of Claim against Defendants Taryn Burnett, Megan McMahon and Gowlings

It is worth repeating a recent case that was referenced in this blog's visitor analytics post from last year. In the unrelated case Kent v Martin, 2016 ABQB 314 at paras. 278-280, the court found that the plaintiff's website chronicling his litigation (including against another Gowlings lawyer) was an acceptable and legitimate strategy by persons who perceive themselves defamed.