The Examiner, the newspaper chain with outlets in Washington, San Francisco and other cities, kicks off a five-part series on “Lawyers Gone Wild” with a package of articles including “Is There a Doctor in the House…Who Hasn’t Been Sued?“, “High-dollar settlements mark class action cases“, “Little relief: Litigation costs rising as firms face fewer suits“, and “Rogues gallery of class action attorneys“. I’m mentioned, as is this site, in the last of these articles, and my colleagues James Copland and the Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy are mentioned in the articles on class actions and litigation costs. The authors are Cheryl Chumley and Washington Examiner editorial page editor (and blogger) Mark Tapscott.
Four more installments are slated in the series. To quote the newspaper:
* Sept. 21 – Buying political power and friends in high places
* Sept. 28 – How they do it
* Oct. 5 – Hard times in super lawyer land
* Oct. 12 – Securities lawyers’ heads we win/tails you lose deal for corporate America
(cross-posted, with slight alterations, from Point of Law).
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Upon going over to read “Is there a doctor in the house … who hasn’t been sued?” I was treated to either a delicious bit of irony or possible greed*. The Google ad placements were predominately for law firms looking for fresh victims. But the cherry on the sundae was stuck in between all these ads trolling for dollars, were a couple of ads for malpractice insurance. I guess their thought was that if any doctors happened by and were sufficiently frightened with the rogues gallery of attorneys looking to separate them from their hard earned money, now would be the time to start looking for malpractice coverage.
* I have been told that these lawyer ads are high dollar, but they could be blocked by the site operator if desired, but at a probable loss of income.