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Overlawyered

August 25th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

Gayle Porter and Blackberries

» by Ted Frank

Rutgers management professor Gayle Porter shows she’s much better at self-publicity than law by generating loads of press coverage for her unfounded claim that employees might hold employers liable for the cost to their personal lives from addiction to personal e-mail devices. (E.g., this uncritical Reuters report (hat-tip F.R.)) Then again, modern-day plaintiffs’ lawyers have shown themselves perfectly capable of enough shamelessness to turn parody to reality.

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