02-14-2005, 09:57 AM
Wisemon Wrote:If I were a congressman (D), I'd let them have this one. Those trials don't change the corporations all that often, and the real winners are the lawyers. They need to pass a law limiting the amount of money a lawyer can make (personally) on one of those cases. That way, people will stop bitching about the John Edwards' of the world.
I've talked about this already. Eliminating contingency fees would put controls on trial lawyers. And the "let them have it" attitude is what got us stuck with an attorney general who's almost as corrupt as Ashcroft was.