Antipsychotic Drugs - Side Effects May Include Lawsuits. Why patent lawsuits and hot tubs don't mix - How the World Works. George Taylor - Web-Linked Surveillance Raises Legal Outcry. The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar. 140 Characters Is Enough For A Lawsuit. Tweet now, be sued later?
A fashion designer sued Courtney Love over tweets Love posted following a dispute between the two ("You will end up in a circle of corched eaeth hunted til your dead," the singer wrote). Demi Moore and Perez Hilton traded lawyers letters after a series of tweets in which Moore accused Perez of flouting child pornography laws in posting and commenting on a picture of her daughter and the blogger said Moore was a bad mother. Welcome to MyTechnologyLawyer.com. Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Litigating the Past. There is an old joke that if you want to be competitive with a country like China all you have to do is send over a 1,000 lawyers and let them go to work -- the cost of China's goods will surely rise.
The U.S. certainly has lawyers to spare. A decade ago BusinessWeek reported that Japan had only 16,800 licensed lawyers compared to 900,000 in the U.S. In the succeeding decade, the U.S. has produced a couple of hundred thousand more lawyers. With so many lawyers, it's not surprising that the United States became a litigious society. It's also not surprising that a percentage of those lawyers see class-action lawsuits as the road to riches.