Overlawyered » on other blogs http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 “Auto-litigation” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/auto-litigation/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/auto-litigation/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:26:51 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27525 Kevin at Lowering the Bar has been collecting more cases in which plaintiffs have sued themselves.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/auto-litigation/feed/ 0 Best-of-2011 lists and awards http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-lists-and-awards/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-lists-and-awards/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:54:59 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26526 Listicles and award contests from around the blawgosphere: Popehat on censorious clowns, Legal Ethics Forum, Trask on class action cases and articles, White Collar Crime Law Prof, Heritage on worst federal regs, Greenfield on best criminal law blawg post (and winner), Faces of Lawsuit Abuse (Chamber) on most ridiculous lawsuits, Balko on worst prosecutor (and finalists).

P.S. From The Week, “8 craziest lawsuits of 2011.” This in turn prompted a NYC personal injury attorney named David Waterbury, taking up valuable real estate at Eric Turkewitz’s, to write a counter-article saying the cases weren’t so bad, which involved me in the comments section after I observed Waterbury spreading the trial lawyer-favored line that the “Kara Walton” series of bogus lawsuit stories was a purposeful political fabrication.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-lists-and-awards/feed/ 2 Schools for Misrule: some early blog reactions http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/schools-for-misrule-some-early-blog-reactions/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/schools-for-misrule-some-early-blog-reactions/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:27:01 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21783 Several interesting reactions to my book already from around the blogosphere:

  • University of Illinois law professor Larry Ribstein (who commented at my speech there last week): “There was a good turnout and a lot of deserved buzz for this very interesting book. … The book deserves a lot of attention, particularly from law professors and their students as a source of critical perspective on trends in legal education. There is little doubt that the ideas Olson criticizes are hatched mainly in law schools rather than by practicing lawyers and judges, and have led to costly and questionable litigation.” And a response from Scott Greenfield, who says the book’s premise that law professors have great influence over the state of the law “warms the cockles of lawprofs’ hearts given that most of the legal profession considers their influence marginal at best.”
  • Ted Frank: “should be required reading for law students, and deserves a place on any Federalist Society member’s bookshelf.”
  • Alan Crede writes a lengthy and thoughtful review at Boston Personal Injury Lawyer Blog. He notes that on, e.g., the work of legal clinics, “the traditional taxonomy of liberal and conservative breaks down when you start to deal with many fine-grain legal issues.” And: “There are at least two law professors – Tim Wu and Elizabeth Warren (who is now in the Obama administration) – who possess rock star cachet in progressive circles” and can hardly be charged with any sort of airy unwillingness to engage with the demands of practical law reform. Crede generously concludes “whether you agree with Olson’s conclusions or not, there is a lot that you can learn from ‘Schools For Misrule.’”
  • Perhaps my favorite review so far (aside from the great one in Publisher’s Weekly) is from Ira Stoll at Future of Capitalism. It begins: “Of all the possible explanations for Barack Obama, one of the most intriguing is that, like Bill Clinton before him, he was both a law school graduate and a law school professor.” Stoll summarizes many of the book’s themes, particularly as regards “public interest”, human-rights and institutional-reform litigation, and includes this takeaway: “Any donor or foundation wanting to reshape legal education would find Mr. Olson’s book a fine place to begin.”
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More: “Did Wisconsin Police Violate the First Amendment through Selective Enforcement of Limits on Protests?” [Hans Bader]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/boingboing-applauds-cops-lawlessness/feed/ 8 BoingBoing talks back to a nastygram (again) http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/boingboing-talks-back-to-a-nastygram-again/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/boingboing-talks-back-to-a-nastygram-again/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:02:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21010 Behind the menacing letter in question, apparently: a baffling failure to grasp the context in which the phrase “Academic Advantage” appeared on the popular blog.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/boingboing-talks-back-to-a-nastygram-again/feed/ 3 Denis Dutton, 1944-2010 http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/denis-dutton-1944-2010/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/denis-dutton-1944-2010/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:05:42 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20768 The creator of the wonderful Arts and Letters Daily (and a body of great work besides that on aesthetics and other subjects) will be sorely missed. Obits and appreciations: The Press (New Zealand), Nick Gillespie/Reason, Chronicle of Higher Education. For very many years, like Patrick at Popehat, until changing technology rendered the home page concept less relevant, I kept my home page set to the Daily, unrivaled as it was at its job of civilized web curation and casual tease-line artistry; now the L.A. Times speculates (via Virginia Postrel) on what will happen to it next.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/in-which-we-are-cited/feed/ 2 “Your blog hasn’t covered my pet issue. What are you guys scared of?” http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/your-blog-hasnt-covered-my-pet-issue-what-are-you-guys-scared-of/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/your-blog-hasnt-covered-my-pet-issue-what-are-you-guys-scared-of/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:11:35 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19557 Eugene Volokh attempts to answer that question [Volokh Conspiracy]

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  • EPA considers petition to ban lead sporting ammunition and fishing sinkers [National Shooting Sports Federation via Zincavage]
  • Claremont-McKenna economist Eric Helland, known for his work on litigation policy, joins the group blog Truth on the Market;
  • European Union expresses concern about provisions of Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act [Sidley Austin, PDF letter courtesy Learning Resources]
  • Michigan judge rules two waitresses can proceed with weight discrimination claim against Hooters [WSJ Law Blog, earlier]
  • San Francisco prosecutors charge former MoFo partner and wife with misappropriating nearly $400,000 from funds earmarked for autistic son’s services [The Recorder]
  • When litigants demand to depose the opponent’s CEO [Ted at PoL]
  • Wal-Mart seeks Supreme Court review of billion-dollar job-bias class action [Ohio Employer's Law]
  • If you want to hire a home attendant to keep grandma from needing a nursing home, better hope you’re not in California [five years ago on Overlawyered]
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