I’ve got an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal arguing that the scariest thing about John Edwards (see Feb. 19 and many other links on this site) is the “tightly organized fund-raising and electoral machine” he has constructed most of whose key backers “are drawn from the tiny handful of tort lawyers even more successful than he”. In particular, four of the most powerful men behind Edwards — Fred Baron, John O’Quinn, Tab Turner, and Paul Minor — personify in various ways some of the most objectionable features of today’s personal-injury litigation scene. (Walter Olson, “Edwards & Co.”, Jul. 12, paid subscribers only)(free OpinionJournal.com version).
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“Edwards & Co.”
I’ve got an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscribers only) taking a hard look at the small circle of superlatively successful tort lawyers whose backing brought John Edwards to where he is today. (It isn’t pretty.) For more information…
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In a scathing WSJ ($) column, Walter Olson takes “a hard look at the small circle of superlatively successful tort lawyers whose backing brought John Edwards to where he is today.” In it, Olson again calls attention to the serious
Give Until It Hurts, Part Three
An update to my earlier posts on John Edwards’ backers, courtesy of Walter Olson in the Wall Street Journal (subscription site, sorry, but see here):