Are personal injury lawyers frauds and scammers?
A legal scholar explains why "ambulance chasers" have gotten a bad rap.
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You can hardly go for a drive, take a walk in the neighborhood, or turn on a television without being bombarded by ridiculous ads for personal injury lawyers. Are these flamboyant characters legitimate legal representation or scammers? This week, we find out how personal injury firms work, why they advertise so heavily, and how to discern a legit lawyer from a scammy “settlement mill” looking for a quick pay-day.
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Our guests this week are personal injury lawyer John Morgan (Morgan & Morgan), Stanford legal scholar Nora Freeman Engstrom and journalist Jose Martinez from The City Reporter.
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Related Links:
Read about Prof. Engstrom’s paper on competition and contingency fees here. (Full paper available here)
Jose Martinez for The City Reporter: ‘Billboard Lawyers’ Defend Ads and Tactics Amid MTA Push for Lawsuit Reform
You can buy John Morgan’s memoir “Life is Luck” here.
Didn’t make it into the episode but I highly recommend this great and extremely relevant story by Patrick Radden Keefe for The New Yorker: The Car-Crash Conspiracy.
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