[The Westerner]

What goes around, comes around.

[FormerACLUmember]

Most lawyers are simply your run of the mill career criminals, but dressed in $3000 silk suits.

[Red Badger]

How can you indict a firm? People commit crimes, not "firms".........

[george wythe]

It's hard to take sides when sharks are attacking each other.

[prairiebreeze]

The justice system certain does need some bolstering to it's integrity. A good next step would be a peer or judicial review with punative powers who could examine rogue prosecutors who persecute for political gain.

Also, I find it hard to believe that this went unnoticed by the legal system for 25 years. I don't find it hard to believe most of them kept mum about it though.

ping

[Shery]

I PRAY they get canned!

[talleyman]

Doesn't surprise me - the ACLU's been running an extortion racket for years.

[nightdriver]

It it's true, I hope some big-shot lawyers get their hides nailed to the wall.

The all too pervasive attitude among lawyers is that they can get away with anything.

[socialismisinsidious]

"Because of the secret kickback arrangement, Milberg Weiss had a stable of individuals ready and willing to serve as paid plaintiffs," she said. The prosecutor said the scheme gave the firm an unfair advantage over its competitors, at least until 1995, when a change in the law reduced the importance of being among the first to file a specific case."

I hate trial lawyers. So the problem isn't that these bottom suckers ruin peoples' lives or misinterpret, embellish and steal via the legal system...the problem is that the other bottom suckers couldn't get a chance to do the same.....cry me a freaking river.

[Daaave]

The Hill
Friday May 19, 2006

Donations to Sen. Edwards questioned
By Sam Dealey

"Sen. John Edwards’ presidential campaign finance documents show a pattern of giving by low-level employees at law firms, a number of whom appear to have limited financial resources and no prior record of political donations."

"Records submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show these individuals have often given $2,000 to the North Carolina Democrat, the maximum permitted by law."

"In many instances, all the checks from a given firm arrived on the same day — from partners, attorneys, and other support staff."

"Stacy and Robert Kern of Los Angeles, for example, are among those who contributed to Edwards’ candidacy. Stacy Kern is listed as an administrator at the law firm of Howarth & Smith. The firm participated in the class-action suits against the tobacco industry."

hillnews.com/

[snowrip]

Milberg Weiss and its attorneys have been among the most generous donors to the Democratic Party.

And the house of cards comes a'tumblin' down...

Politically motivated, my a$$. The US attorney is from one of the most liberal states in the country, and one of the most liberal cities on earth. The Milberg Weiss guys are just pissed that the tables have been turned on them... I wonder which democrat party hack will be the first to try and pull some strings to save them. This is just the opening chapter in a story which runs deep.

[mewzilla]

Hope someone checks out political donations from folks in that firm. A quick run through shows Dems getting some pretty big bucks.

[blau993]

By the way, the headline writer for this thread has it wrong. Milberg Weiss represents plaintiffs, but not plaintiffs in tort (accident) cases. They represent plaintiffs in securities class actions. They have been hugely successful. i believe they represented the plaintiffs in more than half of the securities class actions settled nationwide last year.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"This plays into the hands of political demagogues who like to rail against trial lawyers as if they were responsible for all the miseries of society."

Projection, pure and simple.