The battle between employers and unions isn't the only monster match-up on the health-care fight card. Long-simmering tensions between doctors and lawyers are flaring up again. This time, pushing t...
President Bush calls himself compassionate, but there's one group he can't stand: trial lawyers. During the 2000 campaign he urged voters to "stand up and fight the trial bar," and in July he told ...
If you've heard enough about the year 2000 computer problem, you're probably not a lawyer. For lawyers, the prospect of mass chaos at the dawn of the millennium is a revenue enhancer bar none.
Each year, Americans file about 20 million civil cases in federal, state and local courts. "But before you shout 'See you in court!'," says New York City personal-injury attorney Harvey Weitz, "you...
ITS INITIALS are ATLA, which makes the Association of Trial Lawyers of America sound a little like the celebrated Hun who tormented the civilized world some centuries back. And that's the way oppon...
FREAKISH LAWSUITS, million-dollar damage awards, and the liability insurance crisis they helped create have touched off a brush fire of lawmaking. Some 2,000 bills that would reform tort law, the p...
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