{"id":4393,"date":"2004-09-05T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/atla-lincoln-tort-reform\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:58:57","slug":"atla-lincoln-tort-reform","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/atla-lincoln-tort-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"ATLA & Lincoln & tort reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The <\/span>ATLA<\/span><\/a> Press Room prepared a comprehensive (pre)response to the attack on Trial Lawyers at the Republican <\/span>National Convention,\u00a0under the rubric <\/span>The Party of Lincoln Smears Trial Lawyers; What Would Lincoln Say?<\/a><\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/span>Overlawyered.com’s <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Walter Olson<\/span><\/a>, Evan Schaeffer at <\/span>Legal Underground<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Jim Copland<\/span><\/a> of Point of Law have all <\/span>talked about the convention and tort reform, as did Slate’s <\/span>William Saletan<\/span><\/a> (taking on Dr. Frist).<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I mentioned at Evan’s place, I believe the blanket “trial lawyer” slurs at the RNC were just silly.\u00a0 However, if the ATLA <\/span>folk wonder what Lincoln really<\/em> would think about today’s “trial lawyers,” I suggest\u00a0they get\u00a0a feel for Lincoln the lawyer <\/span>from the materials in <\/span><\/span>our post<\/span><\/a> on his birthday this year.\u00a0 Also, close attention should be given to Lawyer Lincoln Was a Bargain<\/a>,<\/span> <\/span>where we noted:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"penny Our Feb. 12 post “A Lincolnesque Law Practice?<\/a>” <\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/a>has been very warmly received, suggesting a craving for positive lawyer role models.\u00a0 Today, a <\/span>savvy visitor<\/span><\/strong><\/a> was kind enough to share the result he received when converting into today’s dollars the highest fee mentioned in the materials\u00a0quoted in our posting\u00a0—\u00a0the $500 fee in the 1838 murder case of People v. Truett<\/em>, becomes $9434 in 2003 dollars<\/strong>.<\/span>
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Using our own arithmetic wizardry, we estimate that Abe’s $5 fees for many client matters would have been about $95 now.\u00a0 And, his annual income while riding the circuit, about $2500, would be about $47,000 now <\/strong>Those numbers should humble a lot of modern lawyers, and hopefully make them reflect upon what the search for ever-higher income has done to the practice of law in America.<\/span>
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by Kobayashi Issa<\/span><\/strong><\/a>,<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span>translated by <\/span>David G. Lanoue<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\n– Join the lively discussion<\/strong> that includes Evan Schaeffer, UCL and your Editor, by clicking on this <\/em>thread<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

at least bar assoc. The ATLA Press Room prepared a comprehensive (pre)response to the attack on Trial Lawyers at the Republican National Convention,\u00a0under the rubric The Party of Lincoln Smears Trial Lawyers; What Would Lincoln Say?. Overlawyered.com’s Walter Olson, Evan Schaeffer at Legal Underground, and Jim Copland of Point of Law have all talked about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6kP1R-18R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11967,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4393\/revisions\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}