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	The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law By Walter Olson The editor of this website explores the rise of mass product liability litigation -- from tobacco and asbestos to guns and even fast food -- and charges the lawsuit industry with undermining responsibility and subverting the democratic process.
	The Case Against Lawyers By Catherine Crier Popular CourtTV host and former judge rallies legal reformers with plenty of vivid case examples and an agenda that includes loser-pays and contingeney fee reform.  A New York Times bestseller.
	The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law Is Paralyzing the American Workplace By Walter Olson Overlawyered.com's editor looks at the unintended consequences of lawyering at the workplace.  (more about book)
	The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit By Walter K. Olson How changes in our legal rules brought us the modern American way of suing;  by the editor of this website.  (Buy it on Bibliofind) (more about book)
	The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom By Philip K. Howard (Originally titled The Lost Art of Drawing the Line). The author of The Death of Common Sense returns for a second look at how the hypertrophy of the right to sue results in "a society paralyzed by legal fear".
	Science on Trial : The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case By Marcia Angell, M.D. Quietly devastating story of how a lawyer-stoked scare outran the available science, with financially and medically disastrous results that continue today.  (review)
	The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America By Philip K. Howard Best-selling, example-laden account of how far the law has drifted from common sense: "the delights of this policy prose poem lie in its civilized tone, its perfect details, its sure sense of where the ill-made legal shoe pinches".
	Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom By Peter W. Huber The one book everyone should read on how science gets stretched and abused in the American courtroom.

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