“Sources: Trial lawyers expect tax break from Treasury Department” [Legal NewsLine, PoL, earlier; measure would reportedly replicate contents of bill that didn’t pass Congress]
No doubt totally unrelated: eight Dem Senate candidates journey to Vancouver for AAJ fundraiser [The Hill, David Freddoso, ShopFloor, more]
Report: elderly man jailed after making “bomb” joke about carry-on at airport [NBCNewYork]
New York debt collection law firm files 80,000 actions a year, critics say errors and lack of documentation inevitable [NYT]
Kimberly-Clark: quit letting asbestos plaintiffs forum-shop against us [SE Texas Record] How a new asbestos defendant can get “passed around” among claimants [Global Tort, scroll] Prosperity of one Cleveland asbestos law firm I’d never heard of [Briefcase]
North Carolina court of appeals: employee rushing to bathroom after getting off work not acting within scope of employment [Matthews v. Food Lion, PDF]
“Curse of the greedy copyright holders” [Woodlief, WSJ, via de Rugy, NRO; TechDirt]
Update: “Ninth Circuit suspends Walter Lack, reprimands Thomas Girardi” [famed California lawyers tripped up in Dole suit; Legal Ethics Forum, PoL, earlier]

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Obama administration’s $1.6 billion earmark to trial lawyers…

Trial lawyer lobbyist (and now AAJ (f.k.a. ATLA) president) Linda Lipsen ruefully told her annual convention last year that a bill by Senator Specter to give trial lawyers a tax break could not pass as a stand-alone and that it……
- July 14, 2010 10:27 AM
- By PointOfLaw Forum
“Draco Slaughter, 75, was ordered held on bail Monday at his arraignment in Suffolk County District Court. His court-appointed attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to a charge of reporting a false incident, a felony.”

Draco Slaughter, I can’t bring myself to believe that this is a real person. I mean with a name like that he better be an internatioal hitman or something.
- July 14, 2010 5:20 PM
- By valhawk