I’ve been way too busy to post much of anything this week, but these round-ups have a ton of great stories:

Ron Miller has personal injury related links;

TortsProf with the weekly personal injury law round-up;

Nikki Black rounds up New York’s legal news;

Blawg Review #216 is up at Family Lore. I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, but this is the first time I’ve been called a Lord.

The Citizen Media Law Project does a step-by-step analysis of how Tony La Russa’s lawsuit against Twitter went viral;

Did a local news reporter cross the line of propriety here in a Sexaholics Anonymous report?

In an breathless “expose” … an obviously inexperienced “investigative” reporter for a local cable news organization climaxed her over-the-top report by melodramatically bursting into a closed meeting of Sexaholics Anonymous “demanding answers” to her “disturbing questions” and expressing “frustration” that the startled sex addicts would not interrupt their meeting to sit down with her for impromptu on-camera interviews.

White Coat Notes continues his series of what it’s like to be a medical malpractice defendant. In part 4, he talks about deposition prep and in part 5, the deposition itself.

Ron Miller has big concerns over Obama caving to medical lobby by enacting a “reform” in order to pass health insurance legislation.

The New York Times has an article today about A.I.G. balking at paying claims regarding the US Airways flight 1459 that ditched in the Hudson in January. In addition to lost property, some folks are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. No surprise here, as I indicated on the day of the crash that was likely to happen.

And Blawg Review #215 sets sail at Carolyn Elefant’s My Shingle, with a distinctly nautical theme.

For those finding this site after reading my quotes in a June 9th story in the Financial Times (of London), welcome.

(For other readers, the story deals with appointment of former September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Special Master Kenneth Feinberg to “a new role overseeing banks’ compensation schemes to ensure that they do not reward unnecessarily risky behaviour.” See: From 9/11 heartache to bankers bonuses)

I had previously written quite a bit of praise of Feinberg and his endless hours hearing the stories of victims in order to administer the fund that had been set up in the wake of the attack. (See: The Days After September 11th — A Tribute To An Attorney)

From the article coming out on Tuesday the 9th is this part:

Eric Turkewitz, a New York lawyer who represented two of the victims, said he remained impressed by the stamina of Mr Feinberg. “He was a tremendous public servant,” he said. “This is a guy who was personally hearing cases from early in the morning until late at night. How he did it and stomached it and stayed fresh for it after tale after tale I don’t know.”

If new visitors want to see at a glance some of the stories I’ve written about over the last couple of years, you can see this “best of” list that I update periodically.

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(Related: Welcome Economic Times of India Readers!)

White Coat Rants, posting about his experience as a medical malpractice defendant, puts up his 2nd post on the subject, this one dealing with the retention of experts. A snippet to get you interested:

[My defense lawyer’s] firm and the insurance company contacted me with the name of an expert that they had chosen to review the case. Everyone seemed impressed with his credentials. He was from a teaching program and his curriculum vitae was reportedly quite large. Hey, great, so if his testimony isn’t that good he can roll up his “CV” and smack the plaintiff’s expert around with it. Or we can use the CV for a doorstop during trial. Go for it.

Scott Greenfield suggests, strongly, that the generation of lawyers now appearing have some unreasonable expectations, and urges them to step away from the duckie. And don’t miss the all-star video that goes with the post.

Cracked has The Six Most Terrifyiing Malpractice Cases Ever (h/t Ed.)

A Staten Island ferry crash victim gets an $18.3M award after his lawyer, Evan Torgan, turns down $10M. Then judge Jack Weinstein hacks the 33.3% legal fee down to 20%. Now the full fee is back, and even the plaintiff is happy about it.

A sinful Blawg Review #214 is up at Charon QC;

The Personal Injury Law Round-Up is up at TortsProf;

What do baseball players do when they retire with decades of work life ahead of them? Did you guess “Become a spammer for yet another search engine optimizing company?” Ken @ Popehat has the details in Search Engine Optimizers: One Step Up From the c1@li$ marketers. But don’t miss the comments where former ballplayer Jamie Spotzz –unless it is an imposter — ups the ante with a legal threat.

I learned of OldJewsTellingJokes.com from Orin Kerr at Volokh, and immediately found the story of the chicken dispute. How does the dispute get resolved? Ar their lawyers involved? Yeah, well, you gotta watch…

Last year I wrote of how Esmin Green collapsed and died in the waiting room at Kings County Hospital, after waiting there for 24 hours. But the person that wrote she was “awake, up and about” apparently wasn’t aware that there was video, showing she had collapsed 1/2 hour before. Outrage followed. That case has now settled. See: Waiting Room Death Case Settles at TortDeform, Some justice for Esmin Green at last at Islandista, and City Settles For $2 Million In Death Of Neglected Patient at the Gothamist.

In the Bronx, one cop shot to death another. The Daily News has taken the racial angle on the shooting right away: Black cop killed by white officer: Horror in East Harlem as off-duty rookie is shot pursuing suspect;

Day on Torts has a piece on 39 ways for doctors to get sued for for not diagnosing breast cancer or not properly treating it when it has been diagnosed. The list comes from a medical malpractice insurer.

TortsProf with their 38th iteration of the Personal Injury Round-Up, continues to provide an outstanding weekly overview of all that was written about this field of law in the last week;

And there is no need to panic, Blawg Review #213 at Cyberlaw Central came right on time on Towel Day. So hitch on over for a round-up on the week in law and, perhaps, a few candid shots of law bloggers with their favorite towels. And yes, I am in there.

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