November 24, 2008

• "Lloyd's of London has warned [PDF] that class actions, forum shopping and third-party funding of litigation are on the increase in Europe and the United States." [Business Insurance]
• Thank heaven for small favors: Third Circuit rules No Child Left Behind Act doesn't create private right of action for parents to sue [Legal Intelligencer]
• Some good reviews and attention for Paul Offit's powerful new history of child-health crankery and vaccine litigation, Autism's False Prophets [Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, Orac and discussion and more, Parikh/Salon and more, Goldberg/NY Post, Seebach/WSJ, The Nation, NBC "Today", more, earlier here and here]
• "Reflections on Twenty Years in Law Teaching", with a discussion of the legitimacy of corporate law [Bainbridge, UCLA Law Review "Discourse", leads to PDF]
• Shorter Eric Turkewitz: Here's an instance where unethical docs generated needless health care procedures, so now you guys should quit talking about the ways lawyers do that [NY Personal Injury]
• How factoids generated by expert witnesses in litigation can turn into "accepted" numbers: an example from Hollywood and tourism statistics [Salmon]