November 18, 2008

• All-purpose public contingency fee lawyers? Already representing Bay Area's San Mateo County to go after former lead-paint makers, Cotchett Pitre has now gotten itself hired to pursue financial claims in Lehman Brothers failure [NLJ]
• Theodore Dalrymple reviews Paul Offit's new book on autism and anti-vaccine crankery [City Journal]
• Judge Acker issues broad ruling against Rigsby sisters, the ones who funneled State Farm Katrina documents to Scruggs informants, in Renfroe contract dispute [Memorandum Opinion PDF, YallPolitics]
• Adopting views of Third Restatement would be step in the right direction for Pennsylvania product liability [Stephen Fogdall (Schnader Harrison) for WLF, PDF]
• At Drum Major Institute discussion on shareholder "say on pay", sounds as if panelists march to same drum [Hodak Value]
• On card check/labor law reform, Obama memoir is ominous: "I owe those unions. When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away." [EFCA Updates]