September 11: Here Come the Trial Lawyers

Business Week ^ | 11-12-01 | Dan Carney, Lee Walczak

[SJackson]

As a shocked nation linked arms after September 11, conservatives and trial lawyers seemed to forge an uneasy truce. Congress created a government-supported victims' compensation fund for people who opt not to sue in the wake of the terror attacks, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America stepped in to provide free counsel for them. What's more, ATLA urged its members to suppress their ambulance-chasing impulses and adopt a 45-day moratorium on soliciting terror-victim clients. For a fleeting moment, it looked as though mass litigation might be avoided.

[anGOREy]

Looks like the trial lawyers will do to America what Usama cannot. They will try to tie the legal system in knots for years with their greed.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

We may finally declare all-out war on the scourge of America- trial lawyers- and put an end to their attempted destruction of capitalism with badly needed tort reform and "loser pays" litigation reform.

[MrConfettiMan]

Why wouldn't [trial lawyers] sue, asks Kreindler. "This is our livelihood."

Funny but I always thought it was the victims that sued. </sarcasm>

[Darth Dan]

I believe Shakespeare said it best: "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers." (at least I think it was Will...) :)

[Harrison Bergeron]

I recall the week of 9/11 hearing a commercial for a law firm soliciting for victims of the attack on New York's WABC (Hannity's home station). I was outraged, and apparently so was everyone else - the commercial was pulled almost immediately.

These lawyers are avidly killing their bloodsucking profession as we know it.

[Fintan]

Gee, how long before a Clinton surfaces from this slime...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He'll show up sooner or later. Bottom feeders always do.

[tacticalogic]

The smell of blood money is in the water and the sharks are circling. And you can bet some of them are dragging along siphon hoses that lead straight back to Terry McAuliff.

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

"...The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers." (at least I think it was Will...) "
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You Are Correct, Sir.

Billy Shakespeare did use that line, in "Henry V" as I recall.

[wi jd]

I believe Shakespeare said it best: "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers." (at least I think it was Will...) :)

"The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers" is spoken by Dick the Butcher, a follower of anarchist Jack Cade, whom Shakespeare depicts as "the head of an army of rabble and a demagogue pandering to the ignorant," who sought to overthrow the government.

When read in context, Shakespeare was acknowledging that the first thing any potential tyrant must do to eliminate freedom is to "kill all the lawyers."

Smart man, that Shakespeare.

[gunnedah]

Trial Lawyers are nothing more than leaches.They thrive off of other peoples blood and suffering.It is about time for conservative America to stand up and be counted verbally and physically.Talking here in our own environment will not stop this scum.

[max61]

Hmmm. If there weren't so many laws, maybe there wouldn't be so many lawyers.

---max

[wi jd]

A law license allows pathetic wimps to write checks with their mouth...that their butts can't cover.

'Tis lawyers who defend your right to make idiotic and potentially libelous statements.

[Atticus]

There's a published case in New Jersey arising out of a tragic accident in which two small children were burned in a flash fire in their parents' basement. For some reason there was an open or leaky Clorox bottle in the basement containing gasoline. The parents claimed they had filled the bottle with gas at a local station for use in their lawnmower. A spark from the ignition system of the family's gas clothes dryer supposedly ignited the gasoline vapors resulting in the injury. There was no dispute that neither traces of Clorox in the bottle nor natural gas from the dryer contributed to the fire. Now, who do you think got sued? Answer: Clorox Company, General Electric (the manufacturer of the dryer), the utility company, the gas station and Amoco Oil Company. Some of the claims got thrown out by the Court, but that was a long time ago.

[wi jd]

Trial Lawyers are nothing more than leaches.They thrive off of other peoples blood and suffering.It is about time for conservative America to stand up and be counted verbally and physically.Talking here in our own environment will not stop this scum.

Certainly you realize that there are victims (whether real or perceived) HIRING these trial lawyers.

How dare they make a living.

[an amused spectator]

Dude, I think one of the problems with the legal profession is the attitude that they have all the answers, even in fields where they are totally ignorant.

For example, there are many judges ruling on cases in the computer industry whose only acquaintance with a computer is the one they saw on their underling's desk as they walked by into the inner sanctum.

The nerve of the legal idiots who presume to regulate Microsoft strikes me as about par for the course. How would THEY like it if someone ruled that there should be a couple of hundred different definitive legal dictionaries, because Black's Law was a "monopoly"?

[wi jd]

Dude, I think one of the problems with the legal profession is the attitude that they have all the answers, even in fields where they are totally ignorant.

I don't pretend to have all the answers but I agree that some lawyers do.

My point in this thread is that these lawyers have a right to make a living and they are not hiring themselves.

[SJackson]

Certainly you realize that there are victims (whether real or perceived) HIRING these trial lawyers.

And they will all instruct their lawyers to minimize any settlement, just get what I need, not a dollar more.