Cozen O’Connor – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:06:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 September 3 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/09/september-3-roundup/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/09/september-3-roundup/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:05:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7492 Eeeeeeuw: House of Meats employees show reporter “they have all ten of their fingers” after customer reports human digit in her dish of oxtails [BayNews 9 Tampa] Press keeps digging into Joe Biden ties to asbestos bar [American Lawyer, more links in PoL roundup] Black eye for big law site FindLaw with reports that it’s […]

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  • Eeeeeeuw: House of Meats employees show reporter “they have all ten of their fingers” after customer reports human digit in her dish of oxtails [BayNews 9 Tampa]
  • Press keeps digging into Joe Biden ties to asbestos bar [American Lawyer, more links in PoL roundup]
  • Black eye for big law site FindLaw with reports that it’s been selling law firms links in editorial material, a practice sure to raise Google wrath [Oilman, Kevin O’Keefe/Real Lawyers Have Blogs, ABA Journal, Search Engine Land, National Post] More: WSJ on FindLaw’s denial; O’Keefe.
  • Overlawyered favorite Fred Baron, of Rielle Hunter generosity, much in evidence at Democratic convention [Dallas Morning News, ABC News] Texas trial lawyer Steve Susman is only individual lawyer listed as convention sponsor [AmLaw Daily, scroll]
  • As if legislative expansion of the Americans with Disabilities Act weren’t worry enough, 1,000 pages of new DoJ regulations will add billions in costs, as by requiring that 50 percent of miniature golf holes be wheelchair-accessible [Las Vegas Review-Journal via ABA Journal]
  • “Bond reduced for two fen-phen attorneys” in Kentucky [Lexington Herald-Leader, more]
  • Cozen O’Connor and insurers dealt big setback as Second Circuit’s Judge Jacobs rules they can’t sue Saudi government over 9/11 [Philadelphia Inquirer, more; related on FOIA, Legal Intelligencer; earlier here and here]
  • Jury awards $500,000 in malpractice suit against D.C.-based plaintiffs’ firm Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll [Legal Times]
  • Australia: “A serial protester who injured a policewoman during the G20 riots wants her conviction overturned so she can still practise as a lawyer.” [Melbourne Herald Sun, Julia Dehm]
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