Overlawyered
This blawg "explores an American legal system that too often turns litigation into a weapon against guilty and innocent alike, erodes individual responsibility, rewards sharp practice, enriches its participants at the public's expense, and resists even modest efforts at reform and accountability."
Author: Walter Olson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Rule of Lawyers, The Litigation Explosion, The Excuse Factory and Getting Away with It; Ted Frank is a lawyer who is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and directs its Liability Project; and David Nieporent practices at the Coleman Law Firm in Clifton, N.J. Olson also edits and Frank also contributes to Point of Law. Frank also authors Lagniappe: an unserious blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Tort Law • Trials & Litigation • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100 • Legal Information
Recent Posts from Overlawyered
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Is overregulation killing entrepreneurship?
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N.J.: en route to closure, a detour
Newark Star-Ledger: The mother of an East Orange man killed when Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith ran a stop sign in Millstone told authorities she didn’t want the NBA player to be prosecuted because she…
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Update to Tennessee medmal verdict
Update to the Hamilton County medical malpractice case we discussed in May. Four jurors have signed affidavits claiming that they were “coerced” by the judges’ instructions demanding a verdict into finding for the plaintiff rather…
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“An assembly-line fraud factory”
A jury convicted three California lawyers and two interpreters who prosecutors said had organized massive fraud in the filing of asylum claims, generating false documents and coaching hundreds of clients to make false claims of…
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Around the web, July 3
Transportation Security Administration detained comic book artist based on art he was carrying with him [Popehat] More unease over Federal Trade Commission move to regulate bloggers’ freebies [Citizen Media Law, CEI "Open Market", earlier] “I…
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CPSIA’s tracking-labels fiasco: T minus six weeks
On August 14, unless the Consumer Product Safety Commission acts to stay matters, a new set of CPSIA provisions will take effect requiring makers of children’s products to affix to their goods tracking labels intended…
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Third Circuit panel dismisses charges against Judge Kozinski
Ending the brouhaha over Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski’s having stored off-color cartoons, joke photos and other office humor on a private server inadvertently made available to public access, an 11-judge panel has now…
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Mortgage Implode-O-Meter online speech case, cont’d
Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have submitted an amicus brief in the case, urging the New Hampshire Supreme Court to uphold the website’s position on First…
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On a bench, “Caution: Seats may become wet”
Britain’s Daily Mail has a pictorial feature on superfluous warning signs (via Free-Range Kids). Another peril to watch out for: “uneven surfaces” on beach sand. Tags: United Kingdom, wacky warnings Related posts Milk. “Contains milk”.…
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Annals of legal marketing
Our “law firm would be happy to discuss your rape case with you during a free consultation” [The Briefcase, Ohio law blog; original, posted by a Boston law firm, Jan. 2008] While we’re at it,…