As pro wrestling is to Olympic wrestling? As legal tender is to genuine tenderness? Help John Steele and his readers (riffing off Sasha Volokh) find the best apothegm (Legal Ethics Forum, Jun. 9).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Overlawyered
Point of Law- 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
- Update: Florida son of Engle trials delayedAmLaw Daily has some further updates on the high-stakes tobacco proceedings previewed by Prof. Krauss in this space last week. Further background here....Walter Olson
- Supposed ultraconservatism of Roberts CourtJonathan Adler is still patiently at it, trying to calm the hysteria....Walter Olson
- U.K.: Probe ordered into litigation costsBritain has been extensively Americanizing its litigation system for two decades, introducing conditional fees and other spurs to entrepreneurial lawyering, mass litigation formats, higher damage payouts, wider use of discovery, and so forth. And now: A senior judge has been...Walter Olson
- Around the web, December 1Feds indict six on charges of scheme to siphon $40 million from Cendant, Bank of America and NASDAQ class action settlements through filing of false claims [Alibaba, Karlsgodt] Sovereign immunity? Never heard of it: Sixth Circuit rules Vatican can...Walter Olson
- Reminder: Loser-pays panel in NYC tomorrow
- Volokh
- Welcoming Prof. David Hyman:I'm delighted to report that Prof. David Hyman of the University of Illinois law school will be joining us as a co-blogger. David directs the Epstein Program in Health Law and...Eugene Volokh
- How Private Property Rights Saved the Pilgrims from Starvation - An Underappreciated Thanksgiving Lesson:Thanksgiving may be over. But it's not too late to learn one of the less-appreciated lessons of the First Thanksgiving back in 1621. As economist Benjamin Powell explains, the Pilgrims...Ilya Somin
- NBER Announces that Jan. 2008 was the First Declining Month in the Recession.The NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) has declared an official recession that started with January 2008's decline....Jim Lindgren
- Does the "Example Effect" of Gay Marriages Made Possible by Pro-Gay Marriage Court Decisions Increase Support for Gay Marriage?Gay rights advocates often claim that pro-gay marriage court decisions increase public support for gay marriage through the "example effect" of giving heterosexuals an opportunity to observe happily married gay couples....Ilya Somin
- Lauren Slater's Essay [on a Loss of Sexual Interest].Via Althouse and Reynolds, comes an odd N.Y. Times essay by Lauren Slater. What I found slightly disturbing was not the overall argument about her [lack of interest]...Jim Lindgren
- Welcoming Prof. David Hyman:
As Barney is to Tyrannosaurus Rex, a ridiculous, annoying, toothless joke.
Have to post here, because permanently banned from that blog, too.