Overlawyered chronicles the excess es of litigation, lawsuits, and regulation. By Walter Olson, intellectual guru of tort reform, and Ted Frank. The ethics sections includes an even handed look at pro bono work….

The Uncivil Litigator has a pair of very interesting posts of particular interest to law students and young lawyers.1. First, check out UL’s post about his first jury trial. UL prosecuted this on a pro bono basis. 2. Next, check…

My Overlawyered post about a blogger’s pro bono trial has prompted an interesting discussion in the comments on Professor Martin Grace’s site….

If you sue someone for a very small amount, are you wasting judicial resources and generating negative externalities on the court system (and the defendant)? Should such lawsuits be allowed? The Uncivil Litigator and Overlawyered exchange opposing vi…

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Ted, this is a free market economy. If an insurer, knowing all the facts it needs to make responsible economic decisions, nonetheless makes poor economic decisions, it deserves no sympathy from a society ruled by principles of law and capitalism.