We’re named among the weekly “Web Winners” picks of Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Reid Kanaley, who recommends us for “such class-action gems as the one in California demanding discounts for men on ‘ladies night.'” (Aug. 14). Vincent Carroll, writing in Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, predicts that the forthcoming Kobe Bryant trial is unlikely to resemble the atrocious O.J. Simpson trial, and quotes our editor on the question of jury selection and its abuse (“Spectacle of O.J. trial won’t repeat itself here”, Aug. 16).
Oklahoma’s largest newspaper covered the speech our editor delivered in Oklahoma City yesterday to a luncheon crowd of 200+ assembled by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (in case you were wondering why we didn’t do any posting Wednesday, we were busy there). (John Greiner, “Tort-reform advocate criticizes system”, The Oklahoman, Aug. 21)(requires registration). Readers in the Sooner State can catch our editor this coming Sunday morning on “Flashpoint”, the public affairs program on KFOR and other stations hosted by Kevin Ogle and featuring panelists Burns Hargis and Mike Turpen. And Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union, in an editorial on medical malpractice reform (Aug. 17), quotes our editor’s new book The Rule of Lawyers and also passes along this memorable quote from British jurist Lord Denning: “As a moth is drawn to the light, so is a litigant drawn to the United States. If he can only get his case into their courts, he stands to win a fortune. At no cost to himself; and at no risk of having to pay anything to the other side.” (The case was Smith Kline & French Labs Ltd. v. Bloch, 1983, PDF — see text at fn 18).
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