From the Heights of Hypocrisy, to Mourning Ted Kennedy
The Injury Board has an ascerbic post by Mark Bello, who discusses one of the more notable examples of hypocrisy in the debate on tort reform: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants trial lawyers. And speaking of hypocrisy, Rush Limbaugh declared yesterday that if Democrats used Ted Kennedy’s death to push through their “rationed” healthcare [...]
Why Is Tort “Reform” So Uninformed?
As was pointed out in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Blog, the possibility of a tax break for plaintiff’s lawyers has set off a huge amount of hand wringing among so called tort reformers. Ashby Jones, the author of the WSJ Blog post, provided this quote from Victor Schwartz, general counsel of the American Tort Reform [...]
Around the Web the Legal Way
What’s the difference between being an attorney, and being a lawyer? Not all that much, say the folks at AboveTheLaw. They’ve even brought in an ethicist to explain. And a nice, cheesecakey photo of the law school graduate who labeled herself with one of said terms. State Senator Hiram Monserrate, facing felony assault charges in [...]