Callaway Chair of Law @universityofga.bsky.social. Author THE PAIN BROKERS: How Con Men, Call Centers & Rogue Doctors Fuel America's Lawsuit Factory.
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Callaway Chair of Law @universityofga.bsky.social. Author THE PAIN BROKERS: How Con Men, Call Centers & Rogue Doctors Fuel America's Lawsuit Factory.
Views are my own. Here for stories, civ pro, MDL, class actions, torts.
www.elizabethchambleeburch.com
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch is an American lawyer, currently the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at University of Georgia, and from 2017 to 2018, the Charles Hughes Kirbo Chair at the same university. In 2013, she was elected to the American Law Institute. She received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, where she graduated cum laude. While obtaining her Juris Doctor degree from Florida State University, she was an editor for their Law Review. She has been called before Congress as an expert in complex litigation. .. more
Her book proposal was dissected by Nieman Storyboard:
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Here’s to the next 50 years of asking harder questions, building fairer systems, and imagining a more just future.
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#WomenAndJustice #BookLaunch
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...The same doctors appeared in case after case.
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A federal judge accused a third-party law firm of attempting to “trick” authors out of their record $1.5 billion copyright class action settlement.
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“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
What book taught you something about writing or reporting?
📚 Books Behind The Pain Brokers.
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This is their story. This is our story. This is THE PAIN BROKERS.
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@onesignal.bsky.social
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Each received eerily similar phone calls. The callers knew their names, birthdays, medical histories, even their doctors. They were told they had a "ticking time bomb" inside them.
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In THE PAIN BROKERS, I expose a criminal conspiracy that preyed on over 100,000 women.
📉 After fees and costs? Many women received pennies on the dollar.
🔍 Only 1.8% felt their lawsuits accomplished their goals.
1) After studying 217 MDL plaintiffs across 42 states, I discovered the reality behind those late-night lawyer commercials. The numbers are shocking:
It's about greed, justice, and the women caught in between.
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Eyre won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting and his book, Death in Mud Lick, is a riveting investigation into how corporate greed fueled the #opioid epidemic.
#MDL #MassTort #RepeatPlayers #LegalEthics @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
The Pain Brokers is a true story about 3 women who uncovered a con that turned their bodies into a business—and their fight for justice.
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Note: this opinion shows how common-law can adapt to mass torts if MDLs don't stifle the development of that law.