Since I missed the first day's worth of the Federalist Society Lawyer's Convention this weekend, I wasn't there for the panel on state attorney general lawsuits, in which (according to several audience members) Melvyn Weiss of Milberg Weiss waved a copy of the Manhattan Institute's "Trial Lawyers Inc." report and denounced it and the Institute in colorful terms. At the same panel, National Association of Manufacturers president and former Michigan governor John Engler is said to have cited statistics from TLI in his prepared remarks (& welcome Securities Litigation Watch readers).