Comments on: Wacky Warnings 2007 on Today Show

By: jb

jb — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:06:42 +0000

Dave,
I don’t think the problems are disconnected. Because of frivolous suits, companies hire high-powered lawyers to smack the legitimate claims, and courts’ time is wasted. Fixing this problem will make it easier to sue legitimately.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:20:26 +0000

My favorite is the disclaimer on the car commercial that the commercial is fantasy and cars can’t drive on the edge of buildings.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:23:08 +0000

Guys I’m a lawyer and I love your site. You are taking on one bad aspect of our legal system – the rise of unjustified litigation and greedy lawyers.
But I believe there is an equally important issue with the legal system, and that is the slowness and inefficiency in dealing with the necessary cases – ie a business enforcing a debt, or any other blantant case.

I agree that unjustified silly litigation should be stamped out, but for the genuine people and businesses who want to enforce a debt, they should have quick and efficient access to enforce what’s theirs.

Currently we dont have that, our sprawling laws are in a mess, our courts are glacially slow and expensive, and their procedures unclear and arcane. We should be pushing for a massive efficiency drive (including using less lawyers!) in our system!.