Another requiem for the trial bar
Business Week's cover for the new year joins the chorus of media voices declaring the trial lawyer dead and buried, blaming all the usual suspects: business lobbyists, tort reform, and the lawyers themselves. One additional factor many of these stories have overlooked: a fair number of high-power plaintiffs' lawyers are losing their shirts on Vioxx litigation....
The astro-turfness of hiding behind names evoking "truth, justice and the American way" is getting tiresome, as you wrote in your last post. But in the blogosphere it's the corporations that get called out for astro-turfing (e.g., Wal-mart and Edelman "floggin across America"). But trial lawyers fronting victims' websites to fish for clients are going to get called out, too. For more on this, see:
http://jon8332.typepad.com/force_for_good/2007/01/what_to_do_when.html
Posted by: Jon Harmon | January 21, 2007 at 12:09 AM