Posts Tagged ‘media’

National Consumer Rights Litigation Conference in Portland, Oregon


Hello from Portland! I am in Portland all week for the National Consumer Law Center’s annual National Consumer Rights Litigation Conference. (The conference starts on Friday, but I came early with my wife to take in Portland.)
I will be presenting on a panel with the Americans for Fairness in Lending on getting out the message [...]

Dollar Duo: Textbook savings and more


New vidcast from Star Tribune columnists Kara McGuire and John Ewoldt: Dollar Duo: Textbook savings and more | StribTV

Special interests vs. you


At Public Citizen’s Watchdog Blog, Graham Steele & David Arkush point out the problematic tendency of the press to treat issues of civil justice as clashes of special interests. Insurance companies vs. trial lawyers. Doctors vs. trial lawyers. Debt collectors vs. trial lawyers.
Always somebody vs. trial lawyers. Not “insurance companies vs. patients” or “debt collectors [...]