The latest installment of our free periodic newsletter went out late yesterday to its c. 2300 subscribers, covering the last three weeks’ worth of postings in telegraphic, even punchy style. It’s a great way to keep up with items you may have missed; when you’re through, you can pass on the email to a friend to let them know about the site. Sign up today, right here.
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Fresh archive page for medical posts
The “Bad Medicine” heading, which archives posts relating to medical liability, has grown so large as to be unwieldy for readers, so we’re opening up a “Bad Medicine II” heading for posts from here on. [Superseded]
Latest newsletter
The latest installment of our free periodic newsletter went out this afternoon to its c. 2300 subscribers, covering the last couple of weeks’ worth of postings in telegraphic, even punchy style. It’s a great way to keep up with items you may have missed; when you’re through, pass on the email to a friend or three to let them know about the site. Sign up today, right here.
Latest newsletter
The latest installment of our free periodic newsletter went out this afternoon to its c. 2300 subscribers, covering the last month or so’s worth of postings in telegraphic, even punchy style. It’s a great way to keep up with items you may have missed; when you’re through, you can forward the email to a friend or three to let them know about the site. Sign up today, right here.
New batch of reader letters
Our pipeline is still sadly backed up, but we’ve posted four new pieces of correspondence on our letters to the editor page. Among them: Peter Nordberg writes in (and I respond) regarding the Illinois practice (see Jul. 23) of letting medical malpractice plaintiffs use an anonymous physician reviewer to certify the merits of their claim; the newly filed lawsuit by disabled applicants asking for more time and fewer distractions in taking the medical school admission exam; and two letters about scuba diving litigation.
Welcome National Journal, Salon, Dallas Morning News readers
Stuart Taylor, Jr. takes a hard look at the Kerry/Edwards ticket and weighs the likelihood that it will do much to rein in the litigation biz. Quotes my comment comparing Sen. Edwards to a cleaned-up Michael Moore (“Edwards and the Problem with the Trial-Lawyer Lobby”, National Journal/Atlantic Online, Jul. 13). At Salon, reporter Tim Grieve pens an all-out defense of Edwards which is kind enough to quote me in two places (“The GOP war on trial lawyers”, Jul. 13 (subscription or ad-based “day pass”)). And the Dallas Morning News, in the person of editorial columnist Rod Dreher, includes this site in a short list of recommended weblogs, coincidentally quoting an item of mine on locally based lawyer Fred Baron and his involvement with this year’s Democratic ticket (“Welcome to the blogosphere”, Jun. 23).
Welcome National Review readers
David Frum says very kind things about me and this site (and interesting things about lawyers, politics, and Sen. Edwards) in his column today for National Review (Jun. 8). Last night on NRO’s “The Corner” NR contributor John Derbyshire was generous about my latest literary production, The Rule of Lawyers (“Walter Olson’s book is a great source on the social harm done by the trial lawyer culture”, Jun. 7). And Jim Copland of the Manhattan Institute, managing editor of our related site Point of Law, has an NRO commentary on the Edwards affair, with a link to us (“Kerry-Edwards & Co.”, Jul. 8).
Now we are five
Overlawyered was launched on July 1, 1999, which makes us five years old. Hurrah! We’re going to celebrate by taking off the Fourth of July holiday — see you next week.
Latest newsletter
The latest installment of our free periodic newsletter went out this afternoon to its c. 2300 subscribers, covering the last few weeks’ worth of postings in telegraphic, even punchy style. It’s a great way to keep up with items you may have missed; you can even forward the email to friends to let them know about the site. Sign up today, right here.
Batch of reader letters
Fresh on our letters page, we’ve managed to post another four reader letters from our backlog. Among topics this time: the bizarre prison death of a serial killer in Missouri; a generous assessment of what we do here from a plaintiff’s trial lawyer in Chicago; we get called disingenuous, cynical, and other bad things because of our comment on a lawsuit demanding that school bus windows be redesigned; and a reader wonders whether accounting crimes which destroy life savings ought not to be seen as comparable to violent crimes which destroy lives themselves.