Follow POL on Twitter - Some NYC plaintiffs' lawyers aghast after Judge Jack Weinstein slashes ferry-crash contingency fee from $6 million to $3.6 million, noting undoubted liability in case and client's inability to dicker [NYLJ] For a sampling of Lester Brickman's work urging judges to review reasonableness of contingency fees charged to unsophisticated clients, start here, here, here, and, for some empirical background, here and here;
- Tulane Law School dean apologizes over law review article correlating Louisiana Supreme Court decisions to campaign donations (but was it wrong?) [Times-Picayune]
- Latest in Adam Liptak's "American Exceptionalism" series looks at increasing disinclination of foreign courts to cite/follow our Supreme Court, and debate over citation of foreign law in ours [NYTimes, Paulsen @ Balkinization] A different view: Joshua Friedman, CJR.
- Strange bedfellows? Class-action lawyers suing AIG, Lehman were pulling for the firms' survival so the money would be there [AmLaw Daily]
- As Rhode Islanders wave goodbye, Motley Rice lead-paint caravan packs up and moves on to other localities [Lisa Rickard, Chamber/Providence Business Journal]
- More offshore drilling? Well, first you'll have to get past the minefield of lawsuits [WSJ editorial]
- Questions for U.S. lawyers making Capitol Hill rounds with Ecuadorian "indigenous peoples" clients suing Chevron Texaco [Quin Hillyer, Examiner]
