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Trial lawyers pursue mass torts amid ailing economy
Legal NewsLine ^ | 4-10-09

Posted on 04/10/2009 11:51:34 AM PDT by jasonmyos

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Bad economic times for the nation's trial bar has plaintiffs' attorneys pursuing mass torts to get the most bang out of their buck.

Legal observers attest to a noticeable uptick in marketing by plaintiffs' attorneys seeking clients for lawsuits against deep-pocket sectors like the pharmaceutical industry and manufacturing.

(Excerpt) Read more at legalnewsline.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: lawyers

1 posted on 04/10/2009 11:51:34 AM PDT by jasonmyos
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To: jasonmyos

Jury selection is everything.

Judging from the results of the last election, there are plenty of race and class warriors to provide sufficient anti-capitalism and anti-justice verdicts, to keep the Trial Lawyer scum in clover.


2 posted on 04/10/2009 12:18:54 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: jasonmyos

We just had a lawyer here die of mesothelioma.


3 posted on 04/10/2009 12:20:15 PM PDT by Nick Danger (This post is made of 100% recycled electrons)
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How did he come down with it? That sounds pretty unusual unless he worked in construction when he was young.


4 posted on 04/10/2009 4:15:09 PM PDT by Lynne
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To: jasonmyos

Plane crash kills 2 Buffalo area New York personal injury lawyers
2009-04-30 03:48:40 (GMT) (JusticeNewsFlash.com - Aviation Airline Accident)

2 New York personal injury plaintiffs attorneys die in plane crash.

FAA reports plane flying to Buffalo, NY crashed killing pilot and passenger.

Buffalo, NY(JusticeNewFlash.com)–The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) www.faa.gov confirmed the single-engine plane crash in Mayfield Village, Ohio, on Tuesday, killed two Buffalo, New York, personal injury lawyers. As reported by wgrz NBC Buffalo news affiliate, the pilot, Michael Doran, a 51 year-old attorney with the mesothelioma cancer injury law firm of Doran & Murphy, and his passenger, 26 year-old associate Matthew Schnirel, took off form Cuyahoga County Airport, in Cleveland, after a day of legal business. The New York bound Cirrus SR22 single engine plane crashed about 3 miles east of the Cleveland area airport runway just after 4 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) www.ntsb.gov arrived at the fatal aviation accident scene, on Wednesday, to investigate the possible cause of the plane crash. Both Doran and Schnirel were experienced pilots and are commended, by Cleveland area residents, for steering the plane away from homes right before the crash. Aviation accident investigators claim Doran was attempting to turn the plane around to head back to the airport when he crashed. Doran was an experienced civil trial litigator successful in legal actions involving asbestos exposure, mesothelioma lung cancer, railroad, truck wrecks, and motor vehicle collision injury claims for over 25 years.

JusticeNewsFlash.com news for New York aviation accident attorneys.


5 posted on 05/03/2009 6:44:30 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Good news. Two dead trial lawyers.


6 posted on 05/03/2009 6:46:26 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: KeyLargo

Good news. Two dead trial lawyers.


7 posted on 05/03/2009 6:46:27 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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Good article to read:

* OPINION: THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW
* MAY 2, 2009

He Fought the Tort Bar — and Won
Thanks to a CEO’s persistence, a federal judge discovers massive lawsuit fraud.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Berkeley Springs, W. Va.

Officially, John A. Ulizio is the CEO of U.S. Silica, one of the nation’s largest producers of industrial sand. Unofficially, he’s the man who fought the tort bar — and won. It’s a singular distinction in the world of runaway lawsuits.
[The Weekend Interview] Ismael Roldan

Clad in a hardhat and boots, standing in a quarry in which giant haul trucks carry Flintstone-sized boulders, the 53-year-old Mr. Ulizio seems an unlikely foe of today’s slick plaintiffs’ bar. The son of a Pennsylvania steel worker, he is blunt-spoken, works in a little-noticed industry, and likes to point out he’s a Democrat (”probably the only one in the building.”) What a cursory observation of Mr. Ulizio misses is his own law degree, and his steely sense of right and wrong.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124121851177078835.html


8 posted on 05/03/2009 7:22:15 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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