Sherry Fowler (Stay of Execution) has two posts looking at the good and bad points of practicing transactional law, and how it differs from a litigation practice (via Bainbridge).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Overlawyered
Point of Law- Tuesday webcast: 2008 year in review in securities law[Bumped from Fridays post as a reminder to interested readers] Ill be among the participants next Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. Eastern in the first of an ongoing series of webcasts on a new Securities Litigation and Enforcement Channel being...Walter Olson
- The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers Ultimate LossesNew on SSRN from Patricia Born (CSU Northridge), W. Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt), and Tom Baker (Penn)(via TortsProf): Existing studies of the effects of tort reforms on liability insurance claim costs have focused on initially reported losses, but later data looking...Walter Olson
- Around the web, January 4Report Details Global Reach of U.S. Securities Class Actions [RiskMetrics summarized at AmLaw Litigation Daily] Grim Madoff-clawback portent: in Bayou case $20 million of the $33 million recovered from redeeming investors went to pay legal fees [Bloomberg] Investigative journalism...Walter Olson
- A blow to off-label promotion suits?The plaintiffs bar, in concert with certain bulk drug buyers (particularly state and local governments), has ginned up a giant campaign demanding damages over drug companies promotion of off-label uses of their compounds. Now Beck Herrmann bring news that...Walter Olson
- Tech firms unite on patent damagesThe Recorder: Oracle, Apple Inc., Yahoo, Intel Corp. and several others are throwing their weight behind Microsoft Corp. as it tries to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a $500 million jury verdict for...Walter Olson
- Tuesday webcast: 2008 year in review in securities law
- Volokh
- Johnsen on the Role of OLC:Professor Dawn Johnsen, tapped by President-elect Obama to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, has quite a few thoughts on the OLC's institutional role as an enforcer of the...Jonathan Adler
- Adam's Rib: "Idiot children and more lawyers."I like Adam's Rib -- and it's one of my wife's favorites (she's a geneticist)....Jim Lindgren
- Suing Cold Medication Manufacturers Because Drug Dealers Make Drugs out of the Medication:No, it's not some hypothetical offered by critics of lawsuits against gun manufacturers; it's a real case. From Ashley County v. Pfizer, Inc., decided today by the U.S. Court of...Eugene Volokh
- i>Adam's Rib/i>:My father pointed out that this year is the 60th anniversary of the release of Adam's Rib, a movie about a married lawyer couple (played by Spencer Tracy and Katherine...Eugene Volokh
- Left/Right Consensus: Seat Burris:In the National Journal's latest blogger poll, 56% of left-wing bloggers and 78% of right-wing bloggers believe the U.S. Senate should seat Roland Burris. I voted in the majority on...David Kopel
- Johnsen on the Role of OLC:
At the Center of the Universe
Sherry Fowler of Stay of Execution has started an interesting cross-blogging conversation about the differences between “transactional lawyers” and “litigators.” As a trial lawyer and huge fan of Sherry’s blawg, I feel that I am duty-bound to…
Career Opportunities
Last week, Sherry Fowler explained what transactional lawyers do. Professor Bainbridge liked her explanation, but a reader wanted more details about the differences between transactional lawyers and litigators. Sherry’s response was a post titled “…