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In February, just two months before he became a Democrat, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania introduced "S 437, [which] would allow trial lawyers to deduct immediately on their taxes up-front expenses they incur when investing in contingency lawsuits.
The tax break is reportedly worth $1.6 billion to trial lawyers. If Specter’s amendment passes, this single provision would more than repay the legal industry for its roughly $762 million in political contributions to Democrats over the last two decades.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Trial-lawyers-seek-return-on-contributions-to-Senate-Democrats-53177542.html
Democrats support the lawyers and their money grubbing ways. In addition to the post about Specter, Obama told the AMA that he would do nothing to cap punitive damage lawsuits in medical malpractice cases. It has nothing to do with respect for the law or the Constitution, it has everything to do with lining the pockets of scoundrels and then getting some of that money back in the form of campaign contributions.
Obama says the insurance companies are holding us hostage, but it’s also the trial lawyers. We can’t have tort reform because the trial lawyers won’t let us. (They contributed heavily to Obama’s campaign).
trial lawyers are Obama’s largest financial support group. That’s why he hasn’t said word one about tort reform.
This is not just about health care. Trial lawyers often file suits that they don’t expect to win. They just want a settlement, of which they get 40 percent. Forty percent of $50,000 is $20,000, which is not bad for an hour of work.
Alexander St. Clair Abrams (1845-1931) was a writer who owned newspapers and railroads in the Southern United States and also published under the names A. S. Abrams and A. Sinclair Abrams. He was known as a “volcanic Creole.” During the American Civil War, he served in Company A. Withers’ Light Artillery, as a private at the Siege of Vicksburg. In 1862 he was discharged from the army on account of sickness and being unable to return to his home, New Orleans, obtained a position in the office of the Vicksburg Whig where he remained until its destruction by fire in the early part of 1863, and was taken prisoner and paroled after the surrender when he moved on to Atlanta. While there he was associated with Jared Whitaker’s Daily Intelligencer and published a description of Vicksburg’s capture and a novel called The Trials of the Soldier’s Wife (1864). After the war, he took the loyalty oath and moved to New York City. By 1870, he was the foreign editor of the New York Herald. His health broke, and after founding the Daily Herald in Atlanta he settled in Florida, where he was a prominent lawyer.
Does he think tort reform is not needed because of those donations?
Or is it a coincidence that he now sees things the way they do?
Why would they bother with donations if he already saw things their way?
Does anybody know how much money insurance companies donated to the Bush/McCain campaigns during the past 9 years ?
What can I do with a Law Degree other than be a trial lawyer?
I’m about to get my history degree, and law school is sounding more and more appealing, but I really don’t want to be a lawyer. What else can I do with a law degree?
Please be aware of what you are proposing on getting yourself into. Please do more research first.
Reminder: We are in a World-wide Recession.
Warning> Jobs in the field of Law are drying up fast!! This is just not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING, crumbling, and dying vocational field. Many reasons. Many people today (mistakenly) think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. Also, we simply already have way too many Legal Professionals - we have an absolute glut!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc)
Employers (usually law firms) in the field of Law today want employees with degrees from traditional colleges/universities. Those "certificates" you see advertised aren’t worth the paper they are printed on - they are generally scams. (I found this out the hard way.)
Cost of law school to be lawyer, approx $150,000+.
Be prepared to take on a lot of debt.
Even if you finish law school, you won’t be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of their bills paid <<this would be your competition. And the competition is fierce!!
Now… the law schools know this, but they won’t tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is just saturated with way too many Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will lie to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students anything to get to the students’ money. (Which is why they won’t tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) And these schools continue to recruit and churn out even more graduates………….
If you don’t believe me, then just do a search here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law. Call some local law firms - ask to speak to the Manager of Human Resources - ask them if they are hiring; ask them what they think about job availability in the field of Law………………
In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer?" by Marianne Calabrese and Susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000 students graduate >each year< from the 200+ law schools in the United States. The competition is very keen for jobs and clients." - Even Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (who served on the U.s. Supreme Court for more than 20 years) says there are too many lawyers. (9/14/2008)
Check out these websites: http://informeddecisionmaking.blogspot.com
http://calicocat.com/2004/08/law-school-big-lie.html
http://abajournal.com/news/triplt_bad_news_for_law_students_three_firms_aX_summer_associate_programs/
http://abajournal.com/news/as_rio_tinto_saves_millions_other_corps_will_outsource_too_counsel_says/
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/03/dont-try-to-dodge-the-recession-with-grad-school/
(A link to a website does not constitute endorsement.)
If you want a job when you are done with your studies, consider and look into the fields of >>>Healthcare or Information Technology! I spoke to a career counselor from Jobs and Family Services, and HE told me that these areas are where the jobs are, and future job availability! and scholarships!
Good luck.
(This is based on my current knowledge, information, belief, and life experiences. This was intended as personal opinion, and not intended to be used as legal advice. Please be careful and do your research.)
trial lawyers suck out at least $50 billion each year. Are Obama and Pelosi serious about reducing Health Care costs? or just interested in a bigger government agenda?
Can’t even ONE Obama supporter make the mental leap and ask him/her self WHY, in a health care bill that’s over one thousand pages long, is there no mention of tort reform? We who are opposed to Obamacare don’t want to see doctors getting away with malpractice either, but we ARE opposed to trial lawyers driving up the cost of healthcare for everyone by filing frivolous lawsuits and asking for multimillion dollar settlements of which they generally take one-third off the top for their efforts.
If there is all this talk on Capitol Hill about regulating Wall Street bonuses, then why is regulating the trial lawyers so taboo? Is it because many of the Washington Elite are lawyers? Is it because the Dems are bought and paid for by the trial lawyers’ lobby?
When good doctors have to pay higher and higher malpractice insurance premiums to protect themselves from these lawsuits, we will lose good doctors. I know for a fact that some obstetricians have stopped delivering babies because the malpractice insurance premiums are just too high for them. We the patients lose out when we have fewer doctors to choose from and it’s reprehensible that the Obama Administration won’t even address this issue at all.
Come on Obama supporters, put down the kool-aid and make the mental leap!
Isn’t it slick how Obama blames the high costs on the insurance companies but doesn’t even mention the costs of doctors protecting themselves from the shark lawyer ambulance chasers?
How can you take Obama seriously when he ignores a HUGE issue like malpractice insurance? Isnt this proof he is NOT looking to lower costs for the average American and wants to make sure trial lawyers are well fed on our dollars?
That’s like teachers unions improving education, they’re the problem, not the solution.
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The USA is the only country in the entire world who does not hold the plaintiff, fully responsible for compensating the defendant, in a frivolous law suit.
No other country but the USA allows a party to make false accusations and not be responsible for paying the injured party’s costs, defending the false charges. In the rest of the world, the loser pays THUS there is no such thing as excessive litigation anywhere in the world, than the USA.
The USA is the most litigious society in the world, our courts are backed up with frivolous law suits because one of our political parties will not allow tort reform, so we can be like other countries.
In the medical community, every facet from nursing homes, hospitals,, doctors, nurses, drug companies have HUGE expenses (all passed onto the consumer); patients have many needless procedures and costs, for fear of a trial lawyer exploiting a situation to get rich. The malpractice costs are enormous for all facets to the medical community, ALL passed onto the consumer.
The trial lawyers are in partnership with the democratic party; the trial lawyers pay HUGE donations to dem candidates & the democrats manipulate the law to allow these cretins to plague our society.
Liberals will rationalize their support of trial lawyers because attacking drug and insurance companies is consistent with the socialist uprising (all corporations are evil because capitalism is the real target).
How can liberals cry about health care costs while they support trial lawyers?
Most European countries have limits on what the lawyer can make on any particular case. In fact they have limits on what lawyers can charge for routine stuff like wills and settling estates.
Much of the present cost of health care is due to malpractice insurance. I have a cousin in California who is a GP. He has 6 staff. Two nurses and 4 admin personnel to handle the records. His malpractice insurance accounts for 40% of his overhead and he’s never been sued is 43 years of practice. He’d like to retire but government regulations say he is liable for five years after he quits practicing, and he can’t afford to keep the liability insurance.