Lawsuit Abuse Impact News

After years of defending access suits brought by a wheelchair using lawyer, Catherine Corfee now represents his former employees in a harassment suit.

The U.S. legal system is the most expensive in the world in proportion to its GDP and costs roughly 150 percent more than the average Eurozone legal system, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform.

The British Government risks importing the worst excesses of the American class actions system if it goes ahead with plans to allow consumers to bring wide-ranging claims against companies, the US Chamber of Commerce has warned.

Since late 2010, Washington, D.C. law firm Patton Boggs has been poking a sleeping tiger. It has filed three peculiar federal lawsuits—in its own name, not on behalf of any client—against Chevron, the third largest corporation in the United States. These cases have fared poorly; two were quickly dismissed, and a federal magistrate judge recommended tossing the third in March. On Friday, the tiger awoke.