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Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
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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.

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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

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What happens when a beloved brand masks some of the most shocking corporate misconduct in American history?
Gardiner Harris’s No More Tears pulls back the curtain on Johnson & Johnson.

Essential reading for anyone who cares about accountability and women’s health.
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FRCP 16.1 on MDLs goes into effect today.
Here’s the quiet part out loud: it mostly formalizes what judges have been doing for years. As one judge put it, it’s “a nothing burger.” 🍔
If you want to know what actually happens in MDLs, here's my (free) analysis👇
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Rule 16.1: Rearranging Beach Towels on the MDL Titanic
What the First Federal Rule for Multidistrict Litigation Misses About Justice
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Kind of a bummer!

Independent journalism remains a keystone for democracy. Plus…free tote!

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The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue …
Selling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking…
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The right lawyer can’t undo harm, but they can make the world see it.

Answer to Q above: FALSE!

J.R. Baxter, one of the quiet heroes in The Pain Brokers, reminded me that the law’s real power lies not in money or media attention, but in standing beside someone who’s been wronged.

I'm spotlighting the good that plaintiff's lawyers do this week! Civil justice depends on the few who are willing to push back against power, the ones who fight so others can be heard.

🧵True or false: plaintiffs’ lawyers get paid even if they lose?

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🚨 Last call! Dec. 1 is the deadline to win a free copy of THE PAIN BROKERS, the true story of a small-town lawyer who took on a ring of con men.
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Does Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism? Should women tough out pain and fever?

Dr. Tami Rowen is concerned about advice telling women to suffer without safe treatment options.

Hear what science says:
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What Barry Meier did for opioids, I hope to do for other mass torts. Pain Killer first exposed what was really happening behind the #opioid crisis--years before most people believed it. I'm deeply grateful for the generous blurb he gave #ThePainBrokers.
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Books rarely stand alone. Mine stands on the shoulders of these 10 masters of true stories. 📚🔥

Save for your TBR, share it with a friend, & stay tuned for individual author spotlights.

Kim Cross’s In Light of All Darkness taught me how a book can be both a page-turner and a field guide. Her precision + compassion shaped how I wrote The Pain Brokers.

Her book proposal was dissected by Nieman Storyboard:
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Happy 50th birthday to procedural justice! 🎉Thrilled to celebrate with so many brilliant scholars who’ve pushed this field forward.

Here’s to the next 50 years of asking harder questions, building fairer systems, and imagining a more just future.
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Vulnerable plaintiffs were trapped in a mass-tort machine.
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Had women used insurance and a real hospital, it would have cost them somewhere between $600 and $1,000. A spin through the removal mill ran $69,000 to $120,000.

...The same doctors appeared in case after case.

Many women told they couldn’t use their insurance, which forced them to take out medical liens against their future settlement proceeds at strip-you-bare rates.
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Women were targeted for profit.

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🧵1) Despite researching mass torts for over 20 years, what I uncovered in writing The Pain Brokers still shocked me:

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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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Judge Flames Firm Luring Authors Out of $1.5 Billion AI Pact (2)
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 with Anthropic PBC.
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Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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Want a quick craft tip? Read @praddenkeefe.bsky.social Empire of Pain! It’s a writing lesson in reporting without access.

What book taught you something about writing or reporting?

📚 Books Behind The Pain Brokers.

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3 different women. 3 different states. 1 devastating scheme.

This is their story. This is our story. This is THE PAIN BROKERS.
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The Pain Brokers
Selling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking, never-told-before story of three women caught in a web of telemarketing scammers, shady do...
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JERRI PLUMMER 45-year-old Arkansas grandmother in an abusive marriage. On Medicaid. When her granddaughter overheard a caller claim there was a ticking time bomb in Jerri, she was convinced her granny was about to die.

BARB SHEPARD A school bus driver from Claremont, New Hampshire, and mother of two grown boys, she thought she was getting help for her medical device. Instead, she got a plane ticket to Florida and a surgeon she’d never met. The scare tactics worked. The surgery didn’t.