Category Archives: Trial Lawyers
Are there any scholarly Plaintiffs’ blogs?
I was just reading another article at a defense lawyer blog that got my blood boiling. The primary reason my blood is boiling is because I don’t know of any scholarly plaintiffs’ blogs. Are there any plaintiffs’ lawyers out there who write about substantive legal issues in a serious way? You know, articles written for [...]
A call to arms for trial lawyers who can do more than sit on their asses and bitch.
A little more than six years ago, I began blogging about the civil justice system. When I started blogging, I was a community college student working as a paralegal for a small personal injury law firm. I had no degree, little experience with the civil justice system, and practically no credibility whatsoever among trial lawyers. [...]
Bruce Braley Asks, “Who Will Speak For The Patients?”
When I read this article, I expected the comment thread to be full of semi-literate rants by people who bought Atlas Shrugged but couldn’t read it because it didn’t have enough pictures. I was pleasantly surprised by the comment thread instead. Read the post and see what I mean. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A short but [...]
This is why trial lawyers constantly get their asses kicked in the court of public opinion
Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report complaining about lawsuit abuse, and the American Association for Justice released a report complaining about corporate misconduct. Look at the links below and see if you can figure out why trial lawyers aren’t “winning hearts and minds.” Click here (PDF) for the Chamber's report, "Selling Lawsuits, [...]
How Can Dems Win The Healthcare Debate? By Letting The Trial Lawyers Loose.
If you want to read an excellent article about why Dems are getting their asses handed to them on the healthcare issue, read the entire article I quote below. If, this fall, proponents of health-care reform conduct a postmortem on how President Obama's signature issue went down to defeat—I'm not saying it will, but stick [...]
