- “New Study: U.S. Legal System Is World’s Most Costly” [Daniel Fisher, Ted Frank on Chamber/NERA study]
- “Madoff lawyers collect $700 million in fees” [CNN Money]
- “How insurance substitutes for regulation” [Omri Ben-Shahar and Kyle Logue, Regulation, PDF]
- On the Founders’ concept of rights as embodied in Declaration of Independence [Ray Hartwell, American Spectator; and thanks for reference to my book Schools for Misrule]
- “A Glass Half Full Look at the Changes in the American Legal Market” [Benjamin Barton, SSRN]
- Oooh, a whole WordPress site devoted to ripe-for-rediscovery social scientist Edward Banfield [Kevin Kosar: Edward C. Banfield, An Online Resource]
- “Q. How does one go from editing an adult magazine to practicing law?” [Susannah Breslin interviews Dan Kapelovitz]
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>”Madoff lawyers collect $700 million in fees”
The ones complaining loudest about legal spending by the Madoff trustee are cronies of Bernie Madoff who hoped to keep their ill-gotten gains. The legal expenditures have been cost effective, certainly more so than letting the looters get away with the swag.
““New Study: U.S. Legal System Is World’s Most Costly””
Next we’ll be hearing calls to nationalize it – – in order to make it more accessible and less expensive for all.