The well-known British magazine mentions us in the course of an article taking a more favorable view than our own of the spread of “compensation culture” across the pond (Stephen Grey, “Turn to the lawyers for justice”, Mar. 8). Also in the U.K., the Risk of Freedom Briefing, edited by Roger Scruton, runs a condensation of one of our writings from last year (Walter Olson, “Litigation Un-Limited”, Issue 18). The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin quotes us on the record number of applicants to law schools, in an article alas not online (Jerry Crimmins, “Record crowd knocks at law school doors”, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Jan. 13).
Also not online is a Feb. 16 symposium on litigation reform at Business Insurance magazine, which asked the question: “At which level of government are tort reforms best aimed?” Our response: “Trial lawyers lose because they can’t be everywhere at once. If they have to worry only about fighting running skirmishes at the state level, they’ll usually do pretty well at blocking reform. But when a big campaign goes on for federal-level tort reform, even if it fails — which it usually seems to — a bunch of states will often manage to pass serious reforms, as happened last year in Texas and elsewhere. Washington also has an indispensable role to play in setting ground rules for state-court lawsuits against out-of-state defendants, not to mention the large class of cases that arise under federal law.”
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