FacesofLawsuitAbuse.org  

“It’s very apparent to me that this whole case isn’t about justice. It was about trying to legally extort as much money as possible.” Vytas Juskys · LT Properties · Los Angeles, CA

 The United States Chamber of Commerce has rolled out a campaign to bring to light some of the stories of people affected by lawsuit abuse. FacesOfLawsuitAbuse.org is a project of the Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) which represents the nation's business community. The mission of the ILR and facesoflawsuitabuse.org is to make America's legal system simpler, fairer, and faster for everyone. By telling the stories of the victims of lawsuit abuse the ILR hopes to raise public awareness of the burdens these suits place on the legal system. 

Here are just a couple of examples of the stories that can be found on facesoflawsuitabuse.org:  Read More »

Litigation Holds and E-Discovery Demands - Law technology News

Everyone deletes email from time to time. No harm, no foul, right? Not so if you're a party to litigation. Recent decisions may have lawyers scrambling to find e-discovery consultants to advise clients on the preservation of evidence. One such decision, Einstein v. 357 LLC, held that a party's deletion of email after litigation has commenced is tantamount to spoliation of evidence and necessarily entitles the opposing party to an adverse inference.  Read More »

Regulation through Litigation - Point of Law.com

Walter Olson writing in Point of Law in 2005 shows us the seeds that were sown, which are the sources of The Wilderness and its encroachment on legal civilization.