Robert Barnes is a fucking idiot. The thing about him is that when he’s wrong, he’s confidently wrong. It’s a tactic used to convince people to your side, like a judge who’s not familiar with a particular law. But it’s very misleading when done in a public forum like YouTube livestreams where the audience might not know any better and assume that he’s right just because he sounds convincing.

There have been multiple instances where he’s been dead wrong on the law but a recent one off the top of my head was his opinions on Florida changing the law with the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Legal Mindset, who actually used to do legal work in this area, very gently dismantled Barnes opinion that Reedy Creek is still getting special deals from the state.

I’d estimate that he’s wrong about 15%-20% of the time. The only other lawtubers with error rates that high that I’m aware of are Leonard French on anything not in his copyright practice area, and Legal Eagle on any topic even vaguely political.

Robert Barnes is a fucking idiot. The thing about him is that when he’s wrong, he’s confidently wrong. It’s a tactic used to convince people to your side, like a judge who’s not familiar with a particular law. But it’s very misleading when done in a public forum like YouTube livestreams where the audience might not know any better and assume that he’s right just because he sounds convincing.

There have been multiple instances where he’s been dead wrong on the law but a recent one off the top of my head was his opinions on Florida changing the law with the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Legal Mindset, who actually used to do legal work in this area, very gently dismantled Barnes opinion that Reedy Creek is still getting special deals from the state.