Who is responsible for the greater share of the cost of asbestos litigation, plaintiffs’ lawyers or defense lawyers?
A recent Rand Corporation study finds that more than 730,000 people in the United States filed compensation claims for asbestos-related injuries from the early 1970s through the end of 2002, costing businesses and insurance companies…
A sincere thank you to Jim Calloway for listing this blog as a site of the week — and for pairing me with the incomparable Tom Mighell.…
No, not the Patriots’ owner. The lawyer. His new blog is Bob Kraft’s P.I.S.S.D. The initials stand for “Personal Injury, Social Security Disability,” and the blog, says Kraft, is about the ways injured and disabled persons are mistreated by governments and insurance companies. “I’ve spent almost 35 years trying to help those…
Anyone interested in blawgs as a phenomenon within the legal profession should read the results of the readership survey conducted by Bruce MacEwen for his blog, Adam Smith, Esq. The results are interesting for what they reveal about Bruce’s readers, but even more so for the glimpse they offer into blawg readership in…
Catching up on some blog reading this morning, I almost choked on my coffee when I read this from Denise Howell:
…“What I really want to see though is a firm using technology that lets lawyers (all and sundry, of course) readily customize their bios at will, on the fly, with information that really
University of Wisconsin law librarian and blogger Bonnie Shucha has compiled a list of law library blogs. She includes on the list only professional blogs targeted toward the legal community — blogs affiliated with a law library, blogs written by individual law librarians and blogs of law librarian associations.…
Thomson West today announced its acquisition of CourtEXPRESS, a company that provides online docket research and retrieval from U.S. and international courts. An announcement says:
…“The acquisition is part of Thomson West’s broader strategy to provide reliable, authoritative docket, trial court document and court information solutions to legal professionals. The company’s products
Tamara Thompson, an Oakland, Calif., private investigator, writes two consistently interesting blogs about investigations, the law and Internet access to public records.…
A new study by Dartmouth College researchers, published May 31 by the journal Health Affairs and reported yesterday in The Boston Globe, says that increases in doctors’ insurance premiums are the result not of medical malpractice lawsuits, but of insurers’ poor investments.
The Boston Globe article says:
…“Re-igniting the medical malpractice overhaul
TechnoLawyer has posted the official ballot for the 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards. At the bottom of the ballot is a list of blogs, and there among the many stellar blogs listed is this one. Matt Homann is also listed, and he says being listed there means his blog is nominated. So I…
Deep Throat’s self-outing has me thinking today about how he – and Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting – helped send me to law school.
The Watergate break-in took place on the very day I turned 18, a summer away from starting college and pursuing my goal of becoming a newspaper reporter. At the end of…
Today marked my last day with the legal consulting firm Jaffe Associates. I have enormous respect for Jay Jaffe and his staff of marketing, media relations and creative professionals. But I have been craving more freedom to pursue projects that interest me, without having to be concerned about professional conflicts or divided allegiances. I…
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