Point of Law
"Information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system."
Author: This Web magazine is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute Liability Project. The editor Walter Olson, an author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; and one of its blawggers is Ted Frank, a lawyer who is resident fellow at the AEI and directs its Liability Project. These two also contribute to Overlawyered. Ted Frank also authors Lagniappe: an unserious blog.
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Recent Posts from Point of Law
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That "Right Thing to Do" - Natural Law in Scary Times
Arguments based on the "right thing to do" or natural law have power in times of change.
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Around the web, August 28
Should New York replace neurologically impaired infant litigation with no-fault fund? [Barringer/Berkowitz, NY Sun via Common Good] Fifth Circuit denies Paul Minor's request for prison release [YallPolitics] Federal judge sanctions attorney John Aretakis for…
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Speech Industry Not Dead - Hillary proved that
Speeches are not dead.
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Pictures of Lilly
Lilly Ledbetter's remarks to the Democratic National Convention proved short and of no great impact in Denver yesterday, the standard marking of a box on a convention check list. (Her remarks are here.) We thought…
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The Business of Law
Law is a business.
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Lilly Ledbetter, the convention address
(Note: Dan Schwartz anticipates the Ledbetter speech and examines pay issues and legislation at Walter Olson's other website, Overlawyered, here. The more light that shines, the better....) Today is Women's Equality Day, the kind of…
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Beyond Contingency - Litigation as investment asset
"Suppose Americans could fund litigation without contingency?"
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State Farm v. Scruggs
Roger Parloff at Fortune now has -- not making this up -- a seven-part series on the affair, and it looks eminently worth reading (via YallPolitics)....
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Around the web, August 25
All-blog edition: Daniel Schwartz ties together the FASB's litigation-accounting proposal with the recent study on litigants' difficulty in predicting outcomes of trial [Conn. Empl't Law Blog]; he's also guestblogging this week at my other site…
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Odd but Perfect Fit: Working-class values/CSI Effect
"Oddly, working-class values and the so-called CSI Effect can co-exist in courtrooms.