The story of "Lawyer Told Me Not To Talk To You"

For decades, centuries perhaps, lawyers around the world had advised clients when they were dealing with police or in circumstances where they had a right to silence to tell the interrogators that “on the advice of counsel, I am not providing a statement.”

Because most clients did not understand the importance of the statement and what exactly was meant, they would then proceed to give a statement and usually badly undermine their case. Paul knew there had to be a solution.

Long nights in his dimly lit workshop, Paul worked on an answer to this vexing problem. He had to do the legal equivalent of developing the Wright Flyer into a modern jet aircraft. It would be no easy task!

Finally he developed a workable solution and he set out to field-test it. The initial tests showed very positive results but more could be done. Nevertheless, deploying this early prototype allowed Paul a distinct advantage in defending his clients. He put the new successes back into further research, and ultimately had developed a perfect solution. By then, he had established the Acumen Lab where it was put through vigorous testing.

When it was released, the new legal advice, “Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You®”, was quickly recognized as a breakthrough in legal advice unparalleled in modern times.

Clients could deploy “Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You®” with ease and interrogators were shut down. Vancouver police officers reported “we don’t bother trying to get statements from your clients because they never talk.”

Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You® had succeeded in the field.

After several years of being told to patent “Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You®” Paul took the unusual step of registering this unique legal advice as a registered trademark of his law firm. “Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You®” could now be preserved and protected by its creator, Paul Doroshenko.

Fast forward to 2018. After some pressure Paul relented to allow the phrase to be used on branded reusable bags. The accolades continued pouring in, so a designer t-shirt label was approached to create branded t-shirts. The Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You® t-shirts were made in limited runs and quickly became highly coveted. Soon unauthorized, low-quality copies hit the market from a US retailer, but the public turned away due to FBI enforcement and obvious quality problems with the rip-offs.

Despite the criminal thefts of Paul’s trademark, he and his colleague Kyla Lee set out to write and record a Classic Lawyer Country music song of the same name.

The video was released in November 2019 and the song was made available on iTunes and Spotify. Within days their release of the song Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You shot to number one on the Classic Lawyer Country music charts.

The message had now reached around the world. The most important development in legal advice of our time had now taken hold globally. The music of Paul Doroshenko (AKA Prairie Paul) and Kyla Lee (AKA Boxcar Lee, Boxcar Kyla) as the AcuTones had become a fixture in the lives of countless good people around the globe. With new releases on the way, the world hoped for a brighter day. Then came the Pandemic.

After suffering from COVID-19 herself, Kyla concluded that something had to be done. Paul returned to his workshop to adapt Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You to life in a pandemic. The result: Lawyer Told Me Not to Talk to You® face masks.