Mass Tort Secrets

Mass Tort Secrets
Author: Terry Dunken
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre:
ISBN:

A successful mass tort practice can take your law firm to the next level, generating more clients and revenue than ever expected. Yet, mass torts is an industry that is perceived as being closed to new attorneys. In his book Mass Tort Secrets: The Playbook for Growing Your Mass Tort Business, attorney and mass tort business practitioner, Terry Dunken, turns that notion on its head and provides readers with a step-by-step guide to hitting a home run in the mass tort field. By revealing secrets of the industry, Mass Tort Secrets creates a level playing field where everyone can win.Mass Tort Secrets provides a strategy for building a mass tort law firm. From strategic planning to building your budget, and beyond, Mass Tort Secrets gives lawyers an in-depth practical guide to the business side of mass torts. Whether new to the game or a seasoned pro, Mass Tort Secrets is a must-read for everyone in the mass tort industry.

Mass Tort Deals

Mass Tort Deals
Author: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108416977

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

The King of Torts

The King of Torts
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 034553199X

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts... Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

The Monsanto Papers

The Monsanto Papers
Author: Carey Gillam
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1642830569

Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of the world’s most powerful corporate giants. But a workplace accident left Lee doused in a toxic chemical and facing a deadly cancer that turned his life upside down. In 2018, the world watched as Lee was thrust to the forefront of one the most dramatic legal battles in recent history. The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson’s landmark lawsuit against Monsanto. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn’t survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the eclectic band of young, ambitious lawyers representing him, it was a matter of professional pride and personal risk, with millions of dollars and hard-earned reputations on the line. For the public at large, the lawsuit presented a question of corporate accountability. With enough money and influence, could a company endanger its customers, hide evidence, manipulate regulators, and get away with it all—for decades? Readers will be astounded by the depth of corruption uncovered, captivated by the shocking twists, and moved by Lee’s quiet determination to see justice served. With gripping narrative force that reads like fiction, The Monsanto Papers takes readers behind the scenes of a grueling legal battle, pulling back the curtain on the frailties of the American court system and the lengths to which lawyers will go to fight corporate wrongdoing.

Lawyer Barons

Lawyer Barons
Author: Lester Brickman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139497189

This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance. Contingency fees are the way personal injury lawyers finance access to the courts for those wrongfully injured. Although the public senses that lawyers manipulate the justice system to serve their own ends, few are aware of the high costs that come with contingency fees. This book sets out to change that, providing a window into the seamy underworld of contingency fees that the bar and the courts not only tolerate but even protect and nurture. Contrary to a broad academic consensus, the book argues that the financial incentives for lawyers to litigate are so inordinately high that they perversely impact our civil justice system and impose other unconscionable costs. It thus presents the intellectual architecture that underpins all tort reform efforts.

Law and Disorder

Law and Disorder
Author: Mike Papantonio
Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590793439

One of America’s most successful trial attorneys built his career by going to war for consumers against the world’s most powerful and corrupt corporations. But his winning streak has ended. Money, power, and politics have lined up against Nicholas Deketomis, and he must fight for his freedom, his family, and the future of his prestigious law firm.

Recognizing Wrongs

Recognizing Wrongs
Author: John C. P. Goldberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674246527

Two preeminent legal scholars explain what tort law is all about and why it matters, and describe their own view of tort’s philosophical basis: civil recourse theory. Tort law is badly misunderstood. In the popular imagination, it is “Robin Hood” law. Law professors, meanwhile, mostly dismiss it as an archaic, inefficient way to compensate victims and incentivize safety precautions. In Recognizing Wrongs, John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky explain the distinctive and important role that tort law plays in our legal system: it defines injurious wrongs and provides victims with the power to respond to those wrongs civilly. Tort law rests on a basic and powerful ideal: a person who has been mistreated by another in a manner that the law forbids is entitled to an avenue of civil recourse against the wrongdoer. Through tort law, government fulfills its political obligation to provide this law of wrongs and redress. In Recognizing Wrongs, Goldberg and Zipursky systematically explain how their “civil recourse” conception makes sense of tort doctrine and captures the ways in which the law of torts contributes to the maintenance of a just polity. Recognizing Wrongs aims to unseat both the leading philosophical theory of tort law—corrective justice theory—and the approaches favored by the law-and-economics movement. It also sheds new light on central figures of American jurisprudence, including former Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Benjamin Cardozo. In the process, it addresses hotly contested contemporary issues in the law of damages, defamation, malpractice, mass torts, and products liability.