Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Overlawyered Adds Personal Injury Attorney To Blogroll

When pigs fly, I hear you say.

Would the oldest legal blog in America -- dedicated to documenting the high cost of our legal system and, perhaps, savoring some of the outrageousness that exists (Pants Pearson, anyone?) for the anecdotal benefits -- actually add a dyed-in-the-wool, 100% personal injury attorney to their blogroll? An individual that takes tort "reformers" to task every so often? One who is a guest contributor at Overlawyered's arch nemesis, TortDeform? Well, yes. They would.

Has Overlawyered gone soft? Have they fallen under the spell of Judge Robert Bork's new found convictions?

For reasons known only to those within the super-secret confines of the conservative Manhattan Institute (and senior fellow Walter Olson) that runs the site, they have added this trial lawyer (cough, cough, spit, spit) to their blogroll -- apparently the only plaintiff's PI attorney to appear there. And the blogger they added is still a rookie. Will Olson have to turn in his secret decoder ring for this? Will that trial lawyer guy be ostracized and banished from the PI Secret Society and have to turn in his own secret decoder ring?

Stay tuned. It seems that pigs can sprout wings.
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I don't get around to updating my blogroll too often, but I think it's time to add a few:

• Overlawyered -- Just for fun, I'll place this entry right between TortDeform and The Tortellini. Excuse me while I grunt and flap my own new wings;
  
• Kevin, M.D. -- While Dr. Kevin Pho also has a position contrary to mine on some issues, he is a magnificent resource of stories and opinions from the field of medicine;
• Deliberations -- Anne Reed's terrific blog on everything related to juries. Also a rookie;
• Above the Law -- David Lat's legal tabloid...need I really say more?
  
• TortsProf -- Brought to you by Prof. Bill Childs from Western New England School of Law, who does a great job rooting out tort cases from everywhere the sun shines, and some places it doesn't.
  

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Comments:

I'm afraid you're not first or even second. Peter Nordberg of Berger & Montague, a very effective critic of tort reform, has been on my blogroll at Overlawyered for a long time with his Blog 702/Daubert on the Web. And a well-known personal-injury-blogger from the Midwest is absent from the current roll only because his blog has gone semi-inactive.

Also, do note that Overlawyered is not a Manhattan Institute site (you may have confused it with Point of Law, which is). And I sincerely hope that "died in the wool" is a misprint for "dyed".

# posted by  Walter Olson : August 23, 2007 10:32 AM

 

OK, third. I'm still flattered.

As to the misprint, I don't know what you mean, all I see is "dyed." (I like blogs better than briefs, you can edit.)

And sorry about the Manhattan Institute screw-up, I didn't realize the difference. I now see in the about section the following:

Overlawyered.com is not published by, and should not be seen as reflecting the views of, any wider organization (including the Manhattan Institute and American Enterprise Institute, with which I and Ted are respectively affiliated). The site's modest hosting and operating expenses come out of my own pocket, the outflow occasionally stanched by the generosity of readers who shop at our Amazon bookstore or donate through the Amazon Honor System or, more recently, by ad revenue.

It's a good thing I don't do comedy for a living.

# posted by  Eric Turkewitz : August 23, 2007 10:47 AM

 

It's a good thing I don't do comedy for a living.

Amen.

# posted by  Anonymous : August 23, 2007 12:36 PM

 

amen

A man's gotta know his limitations.

# posted by  Eric Turkewitz : August 23, 2007 12:48 PM

 

Don't sell yourself short. I think you are fairly comical.

# posted by  Anonymous : August 24, 2007 9:14 AM

 

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