Plausibility matters: “to hit $600,000 in two years Lester would have had to bill 13,333.3 hours during that time. This of course would be an average of 6,666.6 hours per year. Is that a lot? ...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/lawyer-billed-over-6600-hours-in-year/
“In his deposition, Porterfield said he may have bitten someone’s ear, but he didn’t know whose.” The suit by a now-West Virginia lawmaker, still pending after years, seeks to hold a now...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/03/great-moments-in-negligent-security-suits/
Get me Civics, and make it an emergency: West Virginia legislature “moves to withhold judicial retirement benefits until state supreme court overturns a ruling” Do threats to publish intimat...
Timothy Sandefur has been tracking (continued) the constitutional crisis unfolding in West Virginia, in which the legislature has impeached all of the Justices on the state’s supreme Court and ...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/10/west-virginias-constitutional-crisis/
Poster case for cy pres abuse: Cato files amicus brief in Google referral header privacy class action settlement “California Court Decision Offers Hope for Procedural Brake on Lawyer-Driven Cl...
In welcome reversal of Obama-era ban, FDA will once more permit direct-to-consumer genetic testing Will California law hold a pharmaceutical maker liable — in perpetuity — for a drug that it...
“West Virginia’s top court imposed a two-year suspension on a lawyer who submitted bills for court-appointed work for more than 24 hours a day on two different occasions.” Tags: ethics, fe...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/lawyer-submitted-bills-working-24-hours-day-twice/
Mikal Watts trial begins over claims of fraud in BP gulf spill claims If someone spilled hot coffee on you, would it take you two years to react? “Woman Sues Construction Company For Allowing...
“West Virginia courts have a well-deserved reputation for favoring plaintiffs, but the state’s Supreme Court may have gone too far this year when it said drug addicts who broke the law to obt...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/10/rating-states-on-legal-climates/
West Virginia: “A state Supreme Court ruling says juries can decide if residents who have broken the law by obtaining and using prescription painkillers can sue physicians and pharmacies for th...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/05/justices-say-addicts-can-sue-doctors-pharmacies-for-addiction/