Comments on: “Judge orders Illinois to pay up” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/judge-orders-illinois-to-pay-up/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 25 May 2008 23:09:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: John https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/judge-orders-illinois-to-pay-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5073 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:40:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4301#comment-5073 CEB is absolutely correct. The current system does encourage settlement – it encourages you to settle a case that you don’t owe just so you don’t run up ridiculous legal bills trying to defend yourself.

]]> By: TC https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/judge-orders-illinois-to-pay-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5072 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:31:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4301#comment-5072 No it would encourage Attorneys to only file for something VALID!

Instead of the the crap they seem to actually make an intended living on today!

Their role in this life, and their support, can be had via means that are honorable.

Best statement about lawyers is that there is still 1% that really makes the other 99% look bad!

]]> By: CEB https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/judge-orders-illinois-to-pay-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5071 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:38:27 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4301#comment-5071 I don’t know much about it, but loser-pays seems like very bad policy to me. This blog is built on examples of people who unjustly lose lawsuits; you propose that they, as a rule, get stuck with the bill? Of course I know it’s much more complicated than that, but it seems that it would do much more harm than good, by discouraging settlement, among many other things.

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