The Self-Hating Lawyer

Recently, a young lawyer running for political office handed me his pamphlet and asked me to support his candidacy. Among his accomplishments, he listed numerous years of representing businesses against frivolous lawsuits.

Excuse me? Is he saying all of the lawsuits brought against his clients were frivolous? Or does he have special expertise in warding off claims which are unworthy of serious attention, trivial, or inappropriately silly (source: Dictionary.com)?

Amid all the hoopla concerning healthcare reform, people recklessly toss around the frivolous lawsuit canard, as if people with claims for damages and their lawyers have nothing better to do than file lawsuits with no merit. We are being put in the same box with the parents of the balloon boy.

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• steve waldman
• wrongful death
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• personal injury
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