Table of contents, The Litigation Explosion
Table of contents (slightly annotated, with links)
Foreword
1. Let's You and Him Fight [advertising and solicitation]
2. A Piece of the Action: The Triumph of the Contingency Fee [excerpt:Policy Review]
3. Role Reversal: How Lawyers Took Charge [class actions] [excerpt:Across the Board]
4. Happier Hunting Grounds [long-arm jurisdiction] [related articles: Fortune, Reason]
5. Litigation Made Easy: Suing Without Explaining [notice pleadings]
6. The Assault on Privacy [pre-trial discovery]
7. Up for Grabs: How Everything Became Litigable [excerpt: Washington Post]
8. Guessing for Verdicts [evidence, experts, damages]
9. Have Lawsuit, Will Travel [choice of law]
10. No Exit: The Death of Contract
11. The Race to the Gutter
12. Junk Litigation: What's Merit Got to Do With It?
13. Naked to Mine Enemies [punitive damages, due process, civil vs. criminal law]
14. The Powers of Imposition
15. Strict Liability for Lawyering [sanctions for meritless litigation; loser-pays] [related article: Reason]
16. The Balance of Legal Peace