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 […]

West Virginia seems to be an annual fixture on the American Tort Reform Association’s list of Judicial Hellholes — and one of the reasons has been the widespread dissemination of junk science in the state’s courtrooms. An article in the West Virginia Record chronicles some of the worst junk science abuses and suggests a […]

Illinois and West Virginia have the worst litigation climates for business, with Pennsylvania and California following close behind. The rankings come courtesy of the Annual Boardroom Guide to State Litigation Climates published by Directorship in collaboration with the American Justice Partnership Foundation (full disclosure: I am President of the […]