Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

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July 3 roundup

  • Texas probate and estate lawyers seldom prosecuted when they steal funds, clients told they should just sue to get it back [Austin American-Statesman investigation]

  • About a third of the way down the center strip, then just a bit to the right, you’ll find us on this much-linked map of the campaign season’s most influential websites [Presidential Watch ’08]

  • Given the enormous liability exposure, would a doctor rationally want a major celebrity as a client? [Scalpel or Sword via KevinMD]

  • The loser-pays difference: Canadian franchisees pursue failed class-action claim against sandwich shop Quiznos, judge orders them to pay costs of more than C$200,000 [BizOp via ClassActionBlawg]

  • Annals of extreme incivility: judge condemns “heartless attack” at deposition on opposing lawyer’s pin honoring son killed in Iraq [Fulton County Daily Report]

  • You keep an open wi-fi connection at home and your neighbor uses it to download music improperly. Are you an infringer too? [Doctorow via Coleman]

  • As you’ve probably heard if you read blogs (but maybe not otherwise), one Canadian “human rights” tribunal has dropped action against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s; another still pursuing case [SteynOnline]

  • Prison-overcrowding lawsuit could lead to early release of 27,000 California inmates [TalkLeft]

  • “He absolutely would’ve gotten this DOJ job but for the anti-liberal bias … and he can’t land any other jobs?” [commenter KenVee on lawsuit over politicized Department of Justice Honors/Intern programs, Kerr @ Volokh, background]

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Overlawyered’s ninth anniversary

Without our loyal audience we wouldn’t have made it through nine years — and wide acclaim as the oldest legal blog, as well as one of the most popular. In yesterday’s thread, reader Greg Dwyer says he has “read every single post on this site” (I’m impressed) while reader M.T. Glass discovered this blog (a word that didn’t exist then, if memory serves) when it was less than two months old.

Partly in consequence of our popular WordPress redesign we’ve also been setting new traffic records, regularly surpassing 9,000 and often hitting 10,000 unique daily visitors. Thanks for your support! (& welcome Above the Law, National Arbitration Forum, Law Crossing, Point of Law readers).

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ABA Journal “Blawg 100”

The ABA Journal has named Overlawyered to its inaugural “Blawg 100”, one of thirteen sites labeled “Generally Speaking”, i.e., generalist law sites. In fact, you can vote for us here as best of category if you like. Note also that another of the thirteen is my and Ted’s other site, Point of Law. Howard Bashman’s ever-popular How Appealing at Law.com is currently leading in the balloting, but our sites are at present doing well in the competition, with Point of Law at #4 position and Overlawyered at #2 (cross-posted, in slightly altered form, from Point of Law).

P.S. Ernie the Attorney, as usual unfailingly generous, has some comments about the history of the blawg form, as well as the story of a New Orleans photo not taken.

And now we’re in the lead — even though, as another of our generous brethren states the case, “for every vote that QuizLaw gets, an angel is granted a demurrer”.

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Thanks to Robert Ambrogi

For identifying Overlawyered as one of the top ten legal blogs. We’re invited to name our ten favorite. I’d be remiss if I didn’t identify Point of Law, our sister blog, but that seems poor sport. Here’s my ten, though, of course, Walter’s may differ:

  • Drug and Device Law Blog: Beck and Herrmann do such a good job covering pharmaceutical litigation in detail that I’ve virtually stopped posting on the subject. It’s one of two blogs where I’d link to every single post they made if it didn’t quickly become redundant to do so.

  • Insurance Coverage Blog. David Rossmiller’s blog is the other one that has occupied the field: he covers insurance litigation so thoroughly that it feels redundant for me to post on the subject, and he affirmatively breaks stories in Katrina litigation and the Scruggs contempt hearing. We’re glad to have been able to add David to Point of Law.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy: An obvious choice. Intelligent discussion of the law by some of the nation’s top law professors, while fairly acknowledging opposing arguments. Is it wrong that I aspire to being a Conspirator?

  • How Appealing; WSJ Law Blog; and Above the Law. Three more obvious choices for breaking news, but I read them daily, and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention them in my top ten.

  • The 10b-5 Daily. Lyle Roberts provides excellent coverage of securities litigation issues.

  • Ideoblog. I don’t always agree with Larry Ribstein (who also blogs at Point of Law) but his discussion and thoughts on corporate legal issues are always interesting.

  • Legal Pad. That’s the Roger Parloff version; several blogs have similar names. One of my favorite legal journalists, and the original reporting done on this blog is top notch.

  • Prettier Than Napoleon. My top ten has to have one non-obvious choice if it’s going to be at all interesting. Only a small portion of attorney Amber Taylor’s blog is about legal issues, but her daily posts are provocative, intriguing, and well-written, and the comments section community is surprisingly productive for a blog.

Update: My, this meme is widespread, we’re honored to also be selected by The Common Scold, What about clients?, and May it Please the Court. Eric Turkewitz also names us to his top ten, but I have to disagree with his characterization: Overlawyered is a pro-consumer blog, as excessive litigation hurts consumers. We criticize socially wasteful litigation whether it comes from big business or the traditional plaintiffs’ bar.

Update: more encomiums from Lowering the Bar; f/k/a; Lawbeat; and QuizLaw.

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