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NEWS ABOUT: trial lawyers

trial lawyers stories: 7 news summaries
OPINION

 To Fix Health Care,  
 Fix Malpractice Mess 

But that requires ignoring special interests—an unlikely scenario

Jul 15, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - If we’re going to reform health care, we need to contain the vast costs of a malpractice system that chiefly benefits trial lawyers, writes Philip Howard in the Wall Street Journal. As it stands, “billions of dollars are wasted in ‘defensive medicine,’” and 60%... More »

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health care • Congress • health care costs • lawsuit • health care reform • malpractice • trial lawyers

OPINION

Tobacco Bill's Winners: Philip Morris, Lawyers

We're smoking less because it's dumb, not because of policy: Will

Jun 18, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama might have praised Congress' tobacco bill, but for George F. Will, the new legislation gives just two muscular groups reason to celebrate: Philip Morris and "the Democratic Party's fountain of funds, the trial bar." New restrictions on cigarette advertising will help Philip Morris vault over competitors,... More »

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smoking • tobacco • Philip Morris • tobacco companies • cigarette tax • trial lawyers • cigarette

(Newser) - California’s gay marriage battle continued today as lawyers for the American Foundation for Equal Rights announced a lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 and called for the restitution of marriage rights while the suit is decided, the Los Angeles Times reports. The lawyers—Theodore Olson, then the solicitor general, and... More »

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California • gay marriage • San Francisco • Theodore Olson • civil lawsuits • trial lawyers • Proposition 8 • Jay-ZTV • David Boies • American Foundation for Equal Rights

 Downturn's Latest 
 Victim: the Billable Hour 

Long a legal standard, clients are saying no to lengthy litigation

Jan 30, 09 11:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Might the billable hour—long the standard of measure for legal services—be on its way out? Law firms are rethinking their business models as the economic crisis makes clients more demanding, the New York Times reports. Firms are experimenting with alternative payment methods such as flat fees and percentages... More »

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legal fees • attorney • trial lawyers • legal action • financial crisis • economic downturn

No Crying in
the Courtroom!

Murder case prosecutors seek ban on 'strategic bawling' by defense to sway jury

Jun 25, 08 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - State prosecutors in Ohio want to ban teary-eyed appeals to the jury in an upcoming capital murder case, Time reports. A motion seeking to prohibit blubbering defense attorneys accuses them of crying on cue and violating a 1999 Ohio Supreme Court ruling that it’s “improper to inflame a... More »

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capital punishment • lawyer • crying • prosecutors • trial lawyers

In Surprising Turn, Scruggs Pleads Guilty

Famed Miss. lawyer may serve 5 years
in bribery case

Mar 14, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dickie Scruggs, one of the nation's top class-action attorneys, entered a surprise guilty plea today in Jackson, Miss., to charges of conspiracy to bribe a judge, the Clarion-Ledger reports. Federal prosecutors said they would recommend 5 years in prison for Scruggs, who also faces a $250,000 fine. He pleaded... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • FBI • Trent Lott • bribery • Mississippi • Dickie Scruggs • Katrina aftermath • trial lawyers

Newt Argues a Conservative Green Plan

He debates critics in TNR over how to
spark fuel innovation

Jan 30, 08 9:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich has triggered a debate in the New Republic over how to inspire eco-friendly fuel innovation. He argues that tax breaks and a billion-dollar prize can spark green entrepreneurs to usurp the "oligarchies and dictatorships" that control US oil dependence. But a pair of eco-authors wants more, and... More »

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climate change • Newt Gingrich • carbon taxes • trial lawyers

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