Trial Lawyer Watch:

Yesterday on Air America Radio I heard someone talking about the latest effort by the trial lawyers to convince the American people that they're doing the right thing: the Legal Broadcasting Network. Basically, this website (and radio broadcast) are supposed to tell people that trial lawyers are standing between them and the evil corporate wrongdoers who would poison our air and kill our children.

That's all fine and good, but I think this falls into the "too little, too late" category. Perhaps if trial lawyers had done some self-policing to prevent the most outrageous tort claims (including the Albuquerque woman who sued McDonalds for $1 million after she spilled hot coffee in her lap) they wouldn't have the public image they have now.

If you go to the website, you can also see, and I am not making this up, the results of a telethon to help the trial lawyers with their plight before Congress. Whose brilliant idea was that?