- Not sure you’ve got probable cause for your motorist stop? Why not just fabricate it? [Grits for Breakfast]
- California Attorney General Jerry Brown cracks down on a prolific filer of Prop 65 (toxic warning) cases, New Canaan, Ct.-based Clifford Chanler [The Recorder]
- Man mounts San Francisco rooftop with apparent “self-destructive” intent, rescue effort by firefighters fails, now family’s suing the city [SF Chronicle]
- Why Mort Zuckerman says the law is the opposite of sex [Lattman, from offline New Yorker mag]
- Who’s stirring the pot on client litigation against big law firm Hogan & Hartson? [Lat] Update: it’s a former client [Turkewitz]
- Some top judges in Australia embarrassed after confessing activist leanings to an American academic who was writing it all down [The Australian]
- Cost of defending against a white-collar crime prosecution: seven figures if you’re lucky [Lattman via Lat]
- New at Point of Law: chiding Supreme Court Chicken Littles, more on Canadian sovereignty and the Conrad Black trial, reasonable degrees of expert witness certainty, making litigation instead of steel, Michael Krauss criticizes Virginia Tech compensation fund;
- If you can’t do something about the falling petals, maybe your flower shop shouldn’t be in the train station [U.K. Telegraph]
- Illinois tells lawyers to hire a doctor to certify merit of med-mal claim, but permits that doctor to remain anonymous [three years ago on Overlawyered]
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Smart lawyers love the certificate of merit by an expert. It is an absolute shield against any claim of frivolousness.
The name of the expert should be discoverable. What if the expert has a bias because she is the plaintiff lawyer’s mother? “My son, he’s so smart.”