A Virginia trial lawyer “pleaded guilty to embezzling millions of dollars from clients who had suffered serious injuries to fund a lavish lifestyle” that included a six-bedroom mansion in Virginia horse country and a mountain ski chalet, according to a story in today’s Washington Examiner.
It seems trial lawyer Stephen Conrad was filing personal injury claims, […]
Alicia Mundy of The Wall Street Journal has a piece on the politics of tort reform in today’s edition.
Mundy notes that judges are putting holds on major cases pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Wyeth v. Levine, a case to be heard on November 3. While that case is pending, Mundy describes how […]
The New York Times reports on a study to be published in the September issue of Journal of Empirical Legal Studies that analyzes whether the parties in a lawsuit would be better off settling or going to trial. Being The Times, they lead with the plaintiffs’ angle—“most of the plaintiffs who decided to pass […]
Pity the poor blogger trying to keep up with the plaintiff’s bar. Nothing you can possibly come up with can match that profession’s propensity for self-satire.
Exhibit A: WhoCanISue.com. You might think that this is something a comedian came up with in a send-up of the legal profession. Or you might think it […]
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler, Jr., remains Exhibit A in the drive to protect voters’ rights in state judicial elections.
After losing an election to the high court by a whopping two-to-one margin in 2000, Mr. Butler managed to finally secure a place for himself on the bench through an appointment by Gov. […]
Once again, the Manhattan Institute and its Trial Lawyers, Inc. series set the gold standard for reporting the ground-truth about legal systems in the states.
In a new update, “Judging Ohio,” Manhattan manages to tell a legal reform saga in concise terms.
In 1999, the Ohio State Supreme Court bowed to the trial bar […]
As usual, the Wall Street Journal stands head-and-shoulders above the journalistic crowd in reporting trial bar shenanigans. In a column today, Kimberley Strassel notes the practice of ambitious state Attorneys General like West Virginia’s Darrell McGraw, who file “questionable lawsuits against big companies, secretly doling out the legal work to outside trial lawyers friends […]
Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is by now heading to a federal prison in Kentucky, where he’ll be wearing an orange jumpsuit and doing good works like clearing trash along our nation’s highways. Following his sentence of five years in prison, you’d think the worst is over for the King of Torts.
But Dickie has had a […]
The Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce just launched an amazing new interactive website that slickly documents the “stealth campaign” by the trial lawyer lobby to open up new avenues of litigation and further clog our courts with abusive lawsuits.
Among the dozens and dozens of trial lawyer earmarks identified by the ILR:
legislation that would expose […]
Earlier I posted an item about the $1.6 billion tax cut for trial lawyers secretly slipped by Democratic leaders into a House tax bill. But it turns out that this was just the tip of the iceberg. An article in Sunday’s Washington Examiner details the legislative payoff the new Democratic Congress is delivering […]
