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 the founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness and authors its blog; and David Nieporent practices at the Coleman Law Firm in Clifton, N.J. Olson also edits and Frank also contributes to Point of Law.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Tort Law • Trials & Litigation • Solo / Small Firm • Legal Information

Recent Posts from Overlawyered

“Testimony: Federal Judge Owed $150K on Credit Cards, Got $20K from 2 Lawyers”
Allegations of $2,000 in an envelope, constant requests for cash, false financial filings, and much else besides, figure in the House impeachment proceedings against a Louisiana jurist. [ABA Journal] Tags: judges, Louisiana Related posts “The…
November 20 roundup
Judge finds Army Corps of Engineers negligent in Katrina levees suit [WSJ Law Blog, Krauss/PoL] Feds raise the Gibson guitar factory in Nashville on an exotic-woods rap [The Tennessean] Eric Scheie has a few things…
Trespasser sues railroad
She “was taking pictures on the railroad tracks in Tupelo in 2006″ and things didn’t end happily. Now her lawsuit says the train was going too fast and that the BNSF Railway Company “should have…
U.K.: Find discarded gun, bring it in to cops, get convicted for possession
Could such a sequence of events actually happen? It seems to have happened to Paul Clerke of Merstham, England. [ThisIsSurreyToday via Coyote] Tags: crime and punishment, guns, United Kingdom Related posts Swiss Army knife? “Yer…
Lawyers who sleep with clients
You’d think they wouldn’t need specific rules to know not to do that. [Scott Greenfield] Tags: ethics Related posts Yipes (0) Yet another Montgomery Blair Sibley profile (3) Worst judges, cont’d (2) Working the system…
“A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’”
John Tierney at the Times makes the case against heritage repatriation laws. Tags: antiquities Related posts “Whatever is Greek, wherever in the world, we want back.” (2) Update: Stifling archaeology, the tribal way (1) Update:…
Senate panel approves David Michaels
Carter Wood at Point of Law, Hans Bader at the Examiner, and David Kopel at Opposing Views have more about the oughta-be-controversial OSHA nominee. Tags: David Michaels Related posts September 25 roundup (3) November 4…
Claim: air crash caused drug overdose death
A suit by the estate of the late DJ AM says a 2008 plane crash that he survived helped cause his 2009 drug overdose death [ET Online, TortsProf] Tags: aviation, illegal drugs, proximate cause Related…
Buys house near SFO, sues many parties over jet noise
California: “Stanley Hilton, 60, of Hillsborough, said in unique court papers that his wife of 13 years divorced him and took their young triplets with her last year because of ‘around-the-clock’ jet noise at SFO.…
Writer sought on class-action project
Are you a skilled writer capable of tackling the topic of class action abuse? A reformist group (not us) is looking for a freelancer, old media refugee or other skillful wordsmith to tackle what could…