Overlawyered » don’t http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 14:01:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Don’t http://overlawyered.com/2012/03/dont-18/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-18 http://overlawyered.com/2012/03/dont-18/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:25:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=28331 …break and enter into the house of your client’s husband to retrieve her possessions [Albuquerque lawyer Raymond Van Arnam, fined, sentenced to weekend jail time and ordered to pay restitution, but not deprived of his law license, on charges of misdemeanor criminal trespass and misdemeanor larceny; Above the Law] Tweet Tags: divorce, don't, New Mexico

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]]> …break and enter into the house of your client’s husband to retrieve her possessions [Albuquerque lawyer Raymond Van Arnam, fined, sentenced to weekend jail time and ordered to pay restitution, but not deprived of his law license, on charges of misdemeanor criminal trespass and misdemeanor larceny; Above the Law]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/03/dont-18/feed/ 0 Who arranged those leniency letters, anyway? http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/who-arranged-those-leniency-letters-anyway/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-arranged-those-leniency-letters-anyway http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/who-arranged-those-leniency-letters-anyway/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:44:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26756 Curious goings-on during the sentencing process of a Vero Beach, Fla. lawyer gone wrong. [Vero Beach News] Tweet Tags: crime and punishment, don't, Florida

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]]> Curious goings-on during the sentencing process of a Vero Beach, Fla. lawyer gone wrong. [Vero Beach News]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/who-arranged-those-leniency-letters-anyway/feed/ 2 Don’t http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dont-17/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-17 http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dont-17/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:27:12 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26286 Don’t (if you’re a lawyer seeking favorable rulings in your case) attract national attention by assailing the judge and other court officials as, among other epithets, “Popess,” “mindless numbnut,” “dastardly Jesuit,” and “bigoted Catholic beasts.” [Lowering the Bar, Minnesota] Tweet Tags: don't

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]]> Don’t (if you’re a lawyer seeking favorable rulings in your case) attract national attention by assailing the judge and other court officials as, among other epithets, “Popess,” “mindless numbnut,” “dastardly Jesuit,” and “bigoted Catholic beasts.” [Lowering the Bar, Minnesota]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dont-17/feed/ 4 November 17 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=november-17-roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:25:20 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25586 Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm] Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor "Golden Holocaust"] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on [...]

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  • Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm]
  • Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor "Golden Holocaust"] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on Drugs (or Booze, take your pick) [Perry]
  • Controversy over definition of medical disorders in DSM-V has implications for workplace law including ADA, FMLA [Labor Related, petition]
  • “Not Safe to Display an American Flag in an American High School” [Volokh]
  • “Criminal Defense Lawyer Charged in Alleged $1.5M Fraud On Clients Obtained Under False Pretenses” [ABA Journal, Greenfield; Texas]
  • Father of Notre Dame student who died says family never considered suing [Chicago Tribune]
  • “The Ignominious End Of The Digitek Mass Tort” [Beck]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/feed/ 2     Don’t http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/dont-16/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-16 http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/dont-16/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:10:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25477 Don’t call in a false drunk driving report on opposing counsel in a family law dispute [California via Mike Frisch/Legal Profession Blog] Tweet Tags: don't

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    ]]>     Don’t call in a false drunk driving report on opposing counsel in a family law dispute [California via Mike Frisch/Legal Profession Blog]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/dont-16/feed/ 2     November 2 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-2-roundup-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=november-2-roundup-4 http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-2-roundup-4/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:08:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25336 A request for anti-SLAPP lawyers in Maine and Maryland [Popehat] “Gallup: Government Regulation the Top Concern Among Small Business Owners” [NRO Corner] Almost as if in rebuttal to claims from Treasury economist [Business Roundtable] Foreclosure law firm in upstate NY under fire after pics posted of its Halloween party [Nocera, Mystal] “GAO Report Details Secrecy [...]

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  • A request for anti-SLAPP lawyers in Maine and Maryland [Popehat]
  • “Gallup: Government Regulation the Top Concern Among Small Business Owners” [NRO Corner] Almost as if in rebuttal to claims from Treasury economist [Business Roundtable]
  • Foreclosure law firm in upstate NY under fire after pics posted of its Halloween party [Nocera, Mystal]
  • “GAO Report Details Secrecy Of Asbestos Trusts” [Dan Fisher, Forbes] Crown Cork & Seal seeks successor-liability bill in Massachusetts [Eagle-Tribune]
  • Case against FMCSA’s rule change on truckers’ hours-of-service [Marc Scribner, CEI]
  • Richard Epstein on John Paul Stevens as justice and, now, author [Hoover]
  • Feds say lawyer who advised giant theft ring was partly paid in chic shoes and other designer gear [ABA Journal]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-2-roundup-4/feed/ 0     July 29 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-29-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=july-29-roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-29-roundup/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:47:11 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24068 Don’t: “Lawyer Disbarred for Verbal Aggression to Pay $9.8M Fine for Hiding Cash Overseas” [Weiss, ABA Journal] Loser-pays might help: “Dropped malpractice lawsuits cost legal system time and money” [Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe] “Kim Kardashian and the Problem With ‘Celebrity Likeness’ Lawsuits” [Atlantic Wire] Kim Strassel on the Franken-spun Jamie Leigh Jones case [WSJ] Peggy [...]

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  • Don’t: “Lawyer Disbarred for Verbal Aggression to Pay $9.8M Fine for Hiding Cash Overseas” [Weiss, ABA Journal]
  • Loser-pays might help: “Dropped malpractice lawsuits cost legal system time and money” [Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe]
  • “Kim Kardashian and the Problem With ‘Celebrity Likeness’ Lawsuits” [Atlantic Wire]
  • Kim Strassel on the Franken-spun Jamie Leigh Jones case [WSJ]
  • Peggy Little interviews Prof. Lester Brickman (Lawyer Barons) on new Federalist Society podcast;
  • Worse than Wisconsin? “Weaponizing” recusal at the Michigan Supreme Court [Jeff Hadden, Detroit News]
  • New York legislature requires warning labels for sippy cups [NYDN]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-29-roundup/feed/ 5     Worst New Jersey lawyer ever? http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/worst-new-jersey-lawyer-ever/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=worst-new-jersey-lawyer-ever http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/worst-new-jersey-lawyer-ever/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:45:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23321 If prosecutors are to be believed, Paul Bergrin not only defrauded lenders on a grand scale but “set up witnesses to be murdered before they could testify against his clients”. “I can’t have some [expletive] lawyer in suspenders and I’m supposed say thanks because he got my sentence down to twenty years,” said one murder-rap [...]

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    ]]>     If prosecutors are to be believed, Paul Bergrin not only defrauded lenders on a grand scale but “set up witnesses to be murdered before they could testify against his clients”. “I can’t have some [expletive] lawyer in suspenders and I’m supposed say thanks because he got my sentence down to twenty years,” said one murder-rap defendant client. “I’m paying top dollar, and I demand legal brilliance. Someone who will consider all the options.” [New York magazine]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/worst-new-jersey-lawyer-ever/feed/ 1     June 7 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-7-roundup-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=june-7-roundup-3 http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-7-roundup-3/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:19:34 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23278 Claim: unwanted sugar in Dunkin’ Donuts coffee order sent customer into diabetic shock [AP] Schadenfreude aside, key theory in feds’ case against John Edwards looking mighty strained [Meck Deck/John Locke Foundation, Steve Hayward/Power Line, Ted Frank, Jacob Sullum] “They’ve indicted one former presidential candidate on one count of false statements?” [Caleb Brown] American Lawyer looks [...]

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  • Claim: unwanted sugar in Dunkin’ Donuts coffee order sent customer into diabetic shock [AP]
  • Schadenfreude aside, key theory in feds’ case against John Edwards looking mighty strained [Meck Deck/John Locke Foundation, Steve Hayward/Power Line, Ted Frank, Jacob Sullum] “They’ve indicted one former presidential candidate on one count of false statements?” [Caleb Brown] American Lawyer looks back at the law firms that backed Edwards in 2008; our coverage of his ’04 law-firm backers and of moneyman Fred Baron, and my commentary on Baron’s ethical standards;
  • Edwards-reminiscent? Theory that earlier C-section would have averted cerebral palsy nets $58 M verdict [Thomas Scheffey, Connecticut Law Tribune]
  • Carter Wood, key business-policy blogger, departs NAM for Business Roundtable;
  • Tenderer tort-law treatment for trespassers, courtesy 3rd Restatement? [David Freddoso/Examiner, Richard Cupp via TortsProf]
  • Non-shockingly, some litigation defense lawyers aren’t enthusiastic about lawsuit reform [Texas Lawyer]
  • “Attorney charged with stealing clerk’s textbook from courtroom” [Baltimore Sun]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-7-roundup-3/feed/ 5     Lawyer suspended for advising clients to break into foreclosed homes http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/lawyer-suspended-for-advising-clients-to-break-into-foreclosed-homes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lawyer-suspended-for-advising-clients-to-break-into-foreclosed-homes http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/lawyer-suspended-for-advising-clients-to-break-into-foreclosed-homes/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:12:03 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22042 Pending further disciplinary action, the State Bar of California suspended the right to practice of Michael Pines, whose exploits had garnered considerable press attention [Amanda Bronstad, NLJ; earlier here and here] Tweet Tags: California, discipline, don't, mortgages

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    ]]>     Pending further disciplinary action, the State Bar of California suspended the right to practice of Michael Pines, whose exploits had garnered considerable press attention [Amanda Bronstad, NLJ; earlier here and here]

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