Bernardine Dohrn – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 08 May 2012 15:28:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 But there’s no more room to cut the budget https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/but-theres-no-more-room-to-cut-the-budget/ Wed, 09 May 2012 11:23:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=29536 “There are plenty of charities that do good work without including Weather Underground co-founders on their boards of directors and openly praising prison rioters on their websites.” [National Review’s Robert VerBruggen on $400,000 in U.S. Department of Justice grants to the W. Haywood Burns Institute, its board adorned by Northwestern lawprof Bernardine Dohrn; more, Chicago […]

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]]> April 24 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/04/april-24-roundup-2/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/04/april-24-roundup-2/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:07:30 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=6136 Telemarketers working for lawyers and chiropractors “line up every day” at police and public records offices to buy car-crash records [Dallas Morning News] Nice work if you can get it: Bernardine Dohrn’s terrorist-to-lawprof career track [Kass, Chapman @ Chicago Tribune, Ed Morrissey/HotAir, PoL, Horowitz/DtN, Daily Northwestern/FrontPage, Malkin, Power Line] Mystery of embattled Florida debt-relief law […]

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  • Telemarketers working for lawyers and chiropractors “line up every day” at police and public records offices to buy car-crash records [Dallas Morning News]
  • Nice work if you can get it: Bernardine Dohrn’s terrorist-to-lawprof career track [Kass, Chapman @ Chicago Tribune, Ed Morrissey/HotAir, PoL, Horowitz/DtN, Daily Northwestern/FrontPage, Malkin, Power Line]
  • Mystery of embattled Florida debt-relief law firm Hess Kennedy (Mar. 6) deepens as whereabouts of lawyer Edward Kennedy are questioned [ABA Journal]
  • Criticism mounts of Calif. AG Jerry Brown’s lawsuits using global warming theories to force higher-density development [Stewart/LA Weekly, Walters/SacBee, via Kaus, scroll]
  • Kevin Pho (KevinMD.com) on defensive medicine [USA Today]
  • Colorado firm says lawsuit’s “settlement mill” allegations are concocted “by a competitor who doesn’t like (Azar’s) advertising.” [Colorado Springs Gazette]
  • Hey, you can rig up a disposable camera to give you a little shock; it might also give you a D felony record under school zero tolerance [WTNH via Greenfield]
  • One good thing about those anonymous snitchlines for domestic abuse, you don’t have to worry about bogus calls or anything like that [Colorado Springs Gazette on Texas polygamist raid backstory]
  • Lawyers get $2 million in fees in Netflix class action [WSJ law blog; earlier]
  • Supreme Court refuses cert on that very curious $112 million (originally $1 billion) land-contamination verdict from Louisiana [Exxon v. Grefer, Dow Jones/Fortune; CalPunitives link roundup; earlier; more background at Laura Hart/Louisiana Law Blog]
  • Cow-pie bingo event falls victim to liability fears [three years ago on Overlawyered]
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