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18 Jul 2012, 10:14 am
Walter Olson has an op-ed on recent New Hampshire tort reform involving early offers of settlement and loser pays. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 9:09 pm
“I am so sick and tired of hearing people like Olson … the Walter Olsons of the world” writes Ellen Seidman [Parents mag] Don’t let her hear what Eric Goldman said. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 10:05 pm
Abolish law reviews was the message from Walter Olson, in a piece in last week’s Atlantic. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 4:45 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination EEOC settles complaint over heavy equipment operator with epilepsy — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Ignoring complaints about air conditioning could subject a business to a discrimination claim — from Employment Law Bits EEOC Sends Confusing Signal to Employers — from Hiring & Firing It’s tough to prove age bias after getting caught sleeping on the job — from… [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 9:05 pm
The good, the bad, and the beyond belief: “Ten Commandments” judge no favorite with business defendants: “Trial lawyers putting their campaign cash behind Roy Moore for Alabama chief justice” [Birmingham News via Charlie Mahtesian, Politico; same thing twelve years ago] From James Taranto, a brief history of Supreme Court leaks [WSJ "Best of the Web," mentions my Daily op-ed] Pennsylvania: Judge’s swearing-in ceremony “was filled with appreciation to… [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 4:27 pm
Carney describes it as follows: Mitchell's paper, drawing on the scholarly work of Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Joseph Schumpeter, Mancur Olson, George Stigler, Luigi Zingales and many others, outlines various types of privilege and lays out the evidence that these policies hurt the economy while benefiting the privileged. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 10:55 am
” UPDATE: Walter Olson, of course, and his commenters go to town with this. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 10:41 am
Walter Olson has an op-ed on early offers in todays New York Post. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 5:06 am
Jim Chen, Walter Olson and Brian Tamanaha address the lawyers' guild. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 8:24 am
Some other reactions: Stephen Bainbridge: I think Walter Olson’s basically right. but there are so many obstacles. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 8:10 am
Over at the Atlantic, Walter Olson reprises the claim that law reviews are worthless. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 5:01 am
At the Atlantic, Walter Olson of Overlawyered fame calls for the death of the law review. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 4:30 am
Happy birthday to Walter Olson’s Overlawyered blog, which turns 13 years old this week, if you can believe it. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 3:56 pm
Walter Olson, the always provocative legal commentator, has struck again with an article in The Atlantic. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 10:42 am
Walter Olson, senior fellow, the Cato Institute, Washington Tweet Tags: Canada, labor unions, public employment, Wisconsin From the Globe and Mail is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:30 am
Walter Olson reminds us of one positive consequence of independence from Britain. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 9:28 am
As Walter Olson describes, the law incentivizes "defendants to make offers early in the litigation process... [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 1:11 pm
Tort reformer Walter Olson rounds up some commentary, most notably Torts Professor Christopher J. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 4:33 am
Via Walter Olson at Overlawyered: Pay up, EEOC tells a cafe owner, for not taking on a hearing- and speech-impaired applicant for a cashier’s position [EEOC press release (Albuquerque's Savory Fare Bakery and Cafe agrees to pay $20,000 and offer other relief).The EEOC described the employee as "hearing impaired" and "having a minor speech impediment," which neither makes her a bad person nor unemployable by any stretch of the imagination. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 4:44 am
— from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Is Breastfeeding Bias the EEOC’s Next Battleground? [read post]
