http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html/comment-page-1#comment-9380 markm Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:56:49 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html#comment-9380 <p>Grisham has written several books that are far too favorable to tort plaintiff lawyers, but unless I'm mixing up various Grisham books, <i>Runaway Jury</i> isn't one of them. Isn't it the one where the real scheme was insider trading in the defendant's stock by the plaintiff's lawfirm? That is, they made a fortune by selling the stock short before the fixed jury came back with a verdict that was ridiculously large even if one bought all the plaintiff's claims. Then they multiplied it by buying the stock at its low point before the jury tampering was deliberately revealed and the verdict overturned. By the time the courts overcame their distaste for issuing arrest warrants for good buddies, the lawyers in charge were (or intended to be) on a plane to rejoin their stolen fortune in foreign lands with no extradition, leaving their contingency-fee clients holding the bag. That's about as unethical as a lawyer can get, and Grisham didn't whitewash it...</p> Grisham has written several books that are far too favorable to tort plaintiff lawyers, but unless I’m mixing up various Grisham books, Runaway Jury isn’t one of them. Isn’t it the one where the real scheme was insider trading in the defendant’s stock by the plaintiff’s lawfirm? That is, they made a fortune by selling the stock short before the fixed jury came back with a verdict that was ridiculously large even if one bought all the plaintiff’s claims. Then they multiplied it by buying the stock at its low point before the jury tampering was deliberately revealed and the verdict overturned. By the time the courts overcame their distaste for issuing arrest warrants for good buddies, the lawyers in charge were (or intended to be) on a plane to rejoin their stolen fortune in foreign lands with no extradition, leaving their contingency-fee clients holding the bag. That’s about as unethical as a lawyer can get, and Grisham didn’t whitewash it…

]]> http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html/comment-page-1#comment-9379 ErikTheRed Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:55:18 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html#comment-9379 <p>"that suggest that the direst immediate problems of the Mississippi judiciary" - ouch. I think I sprained some brain cells. I'm usually not a huge grammar nazi, but that's just painful.</p> “that suggest that the direst immediate problems of the Mississippi judiciary” – ouch. I think I sprained some brain cells. I’m usually not a huge grammar nazi, but that’s just painful.

]]> http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html/comment-page-1#comment-9378 m.jed Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:40:40 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/new-grisham-nov.html#comment-9378 <p>I tend to agree with you about Grisham (like USA Today, fits nicely into the "junkfood for the mind" genre) and stopped reading him a long time ago. But "King of Torts" was recommended by several executives in the insurance industry as the closest representation of the trial-bar collusion and tragedies in the name of justice that goes on in mass tort cases. It was a few years ago, and as you imply, all Grisham tends to run together with time, but if I remember correctly, this book actually painted plaintiff's attys as villains. </p> I tend to agree with you about Grisham (like USA Today, fits nicely into the “junkfood for the mind” genre) and stopped reading him a long time ago. But “King of Torts” was recommended by several executives in the insurance industry as the closest representation of the trial-bar collusion and tragedies in the name of justice that goes on in mass tort cases. It was a few years ago, and as you imply, all Grisham tends to run together with time, but if I remember correctly, this book actually painted plaintiff’s attys as villains.

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