Lisa A. Rickard serves as president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), where she provides strategic leadership to ILR's comprehensive program aimed at changing the legal culture that has resulted in our nation's litigation explosion. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 16 May 2011 18:57:00 GMT Mon, 16 May 2011 18:57:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Recent class action reforms, such as the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, have helped the class action system in some ways. But the process continues to be severely abused by elements of the plaintiffs' trial bar,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2011/05/16/class_actions_a_distortion_of_justice_and_continued_threat_to_america's_prosperity 812e264d-a8a1-4913-a429-707089c24195 Mon, 16 May 2011 18:57:00 GMT Imagine if a foreign government defined employees of General Motors and AIG as "foreign officials" of the United States government because the government owns portions of the company, or called Bloomberg... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2011/05/05/the_ambiguous_fcpa_in_need_of_updates_and_clarifications 3adddda9-fe84-4f5e-b385-cbeaba563094 Thu, 05 May 2011 16:07:00 GMT Taxes are a major topic of debate in Washington right now. Faced with a massive federal deficit, some politicians have proposed raising taxes on individuals and businesses, despite the obvious negative effects of tax... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2010/10/05/say_no_to_government_subsidies_for_frivolous_litigation 0884db86-217a-457a-a327-f3a0ae38885b Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:52:39 GMT Sir Issac Newton's Third Law of physics teaches us that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction. But unlike the physical laws of motion, the law of today's Washington politics seems to be telling us that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2010/07/15/repealing_iqbal_and_twombly_understanding_the_physics_of_politics d9ae5ccd-5829-46f4-8aa8-99228a965647 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:51:12 GMT Since it was founded 12 years ago, the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) has never opposed anyone nominated for a federal district court judgeship. That changed this month, when the chamber joined with other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2010/05/26/mcconnell_is_unqualified_to_sit_on_the_federal_bench_in_rhode_island 726a57f6-826d-439e-b54c-a12817313f4e Wed, 26 May 2010 17:55:48 GMT Bank of America, the nation's largest bank, made a watershed change this month in how its millions of customers resolve their disputes, when it eliminated arbitration clauses from their credit card contracts. BofA's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2009/08/31/who_really_speaks_for_consumers_in_the_arbitration_debate 77fbd7c3-74ba-4f8c-b21f-6447364cad6b Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT In 1789, American forefather Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Fast forward to 2009, and it seems that some of our elected officials are trying to amend... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2009/08/06/death,_taxes_and_lawsuits 70befeec-3787-40fb-83e0-c5990c344114 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:42:30 GMT America, the land of pioneers, has become known for its innovation. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the spirit of America's ingenuity changed the world. But, there are a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2009/06/09/the_american_export_you_dont_want 05ea918b-5516-4fa6-8c5b-417b74e28ab8 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:07:39 GMT As Congress once again attempts to pass legislation that would potentially nullify hundreds of millions of arbitration agreements in consumer contracts, they should carefully review the mounting evidence that verifies... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2009/03/11/read_before_burning 9b7c29be-6f4d-42bf-82d5-2040350acdb5 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:29:03 GMT "The way you run your business-you start to second guess how you do business, because you're worried about the next lawsuit. And that's not the way to run a company." - Howard Weiss Reading this quote, you might think... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2008/12/11/when_the_faces_of_lawsuit_abuse_look_a_lot_like_you b55cacd9-2357-4c4b-97a1-344df6849a7e Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:36:04 GMT In 1999, flush with more than a three billion dollar windfall from tobacco lawsuits, plaintiffs' lawyer Ron Motley reset his crosshairs onto another "deep-pocketed" industry: companies that had ceased the manufacture... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2008/09/17/will_plaintiffs'_lawyers_find_new_ways_to_sue_they_bet_their_boat_they_will 7c526d35-16a8-438d-8270-1969c5bdc915 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:49:48 GMT In 1999, flush with more than a three billion dollar windfall from tobacco lawsuits, plaintiffs' lawyer Ron Motley reset his crosshairs onto another "deep-pocketed" industry: companies that had ceased the manufacture... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2008/09/17/will_plaintiffs_lawyers_find_new_ways_to_sue__they_bet_their_boat_they_will 6c5c0b95-fca3-4eb6-8603-bd5d5ec39a0e Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:29:46 GMT Like a bad cold you just can't shake off, the infamous lost pants lawsuit is back. Yesterday, ABC News 7 here in Washington D.C. reported that former D.C. Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson has been granted a chance... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2008/09/11/the_$54_million_pants_lawsuit_that_never_goes_away 2e9e39fc-5dd7-47a2-ba17-c76e502820b8 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:44:40 GMT During these tough economic times, the roughly 50% of all Americans who have their retirement and other investments tied up in the stock markets have a lot to worry about. Inflation. The mortgage meltdown. Rising... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2008/07/31/another_threat_to_average_investors_securities_lawsuits c1027432-06e6-4e3c-a309-dcf7d5075e4d Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:57:47 GMT Every summer, I suspect that those who work at garden supply stores are inundated by people looking for advice on how to fight back against invasive vines and weeds that creep into their yards. Suggestions might... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LisaARickard/2008/07/28/exposing_trial_lawyer_earmarks_growing_in_congress ae7e58d5-959b-4d32-b907-cf02ea0c29ce Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:46:43 GMT