Point of Law

• Med-mal: David Hyman joins Volokh Conspiracy
  Discussion of medical malpractice law in the blog world is likely to heat up soon, what with University of Texas law professor David Hyman having joined the Volokh Conspiracy as a permanent contributor. One of the areas in which Prof....
  Walter Olson
• Tryout for Pritchard securities proposal
  Securities Docket: University of Michigan Law School Professor Adam Pritchards recent proposal to reform securities class actions via shareholder proposal has moved from a purely academic discussion to the real world. Prof. Pritchard reports today that a shareholder in Alaska...
  Walter Olson
• EEOC filings hit new record
  In case you doubted that employment discrimination litigation is entering a new period of expansion: In 2008, the EEOC received 95,402 private sector charges of discrimination, which is a 15.2% increase from 2007....
  Walter Olson
• New Civil Justice Report on Loser Pays
  The 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 Law
  Some 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

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