“I know the vast majority of my fellow Yalies — even some with degrees in Film Studies — have productive, extremely well-paying jobs in some of the largest companies in the world. Or they’re lawyers.” (Read the whole Instapundit post.)
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Overlawyered
Point of Law- New Civil Justice Report on Loser PaysThe Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy today released a report by senior fellow Marie Gryphon, Greater Justice, Lower Cost: How a Loser Pays Rule Would Improve the American Legal System. The report concludes: The United States pays a high...James R. Copland
- Sports Bars and Tort LawSome humorous support of the Manhattan Institutes (and Marie Gryphons) superb new study on legal fees comes from the Washington Examiners editorial page editor, who says we lawyers have a lot to learn from the denizens of sports bars. Good...Michael Krauss
- Blogs from big law firmsNot too long ago it was still a relatively novel idea for large law firms to sponsor or otherwise sanction blogging by their member lawyers or allied professionals. Now GeekLawBlog has a running total of 141 such blogs from 56...Walter Olson
- Jury vindicates Chevron in Nigeria brutality caseIn a stinging rebuke to a small army of progressive American academics, journalists, foundation grantmakers, and others whove promoted the case for years, a San Francisco jury has cleared the Chevron Corporation of all liability in the civil suit filed...Walter Olson
- Reminder: Loser-pays panel in NYC tomorrowReminder: Ill be on a morning panel discussion tomorrow sponsored by the Manhattan Institute to discuss Marie Gryphons new paper on loser-pays reform. Details here....Walter Olson
- New Civil Justice Report on Loser Pays
- Volokh
- Speech Before the Penn Libertarians:Readers in the Philadelphia area may be interested to know that I will be giving a speech tomorrow for the University of Pennsylvania Libertarians at 8:30 PM in Houston Hall, Rm....Ilya Somin
- Damage Caps and Medical Malpractice LitigationThanks Eugene, for inviting me to join the conspiracy – and thanks to those who welcomed me in advance of my actually doing anything to deserve such treatment. To be...David Hyman
- Foreperson in Drew Jury "Always" Reads Terms of Service, Feels Jail May Be Appropriate for "Lazy" People Who Don't:As I noted below, the forewoman in the Lori Drew case has been speaking to the press. Here's what she told Kim Zetter of Wired:...Orin Kerr
- Charles Gibson Interviews President Bush:The transcript is here. The most interesting part -- and also the part that has drawn the most press attention -- is the discussion of the role of intelligence failures...Orin Kerr
- Will Bush pardon officials involved in controversial war-on-terror tactics?Such a pardon would be a generous Christmas gift to the Obama administration, which appears to want to avoid prosecutions. It would greatly disappoint a lot of Obama supporters, but...Eric Posner
- Speech Before the Penn Libertarians: