Trial Lawyers Spent Millions in 2008 Election Cycle
(AUSTIN, TX) Personal injury trial lawyers poured millions of dollars into Texas elections this cycle including over $6 million to front groups and the Texas Democratic Party. Beginning January 1, campaign finance reports reveal hundreds of major campaign contributions from wealthy trial attorneys determined to roll back lawsuit reform in Texas.
8 Day: Chris Bell's Trial Lawyer Funding in SD 17 Nears $1 Million
AUSTIN, TX - Personal injury trial lawyers continue to provide most of the funding for Chris Bell's campaign for State Senate District 17. Bell’s 8 Day report, released today, revealed an additional $449,533 in contributions from personal injury trial lawyers and trial lawyer front groups. Trial lawyers have given Bell a total $984,154 in the SD 17 race so far – fully half of all his contributions.
The Tort Bar's Comeback
WALL STREET JOURNAL, Sept. 16, 2008
As voters mull the stakes in this year's election, here's an issue that ought to ring alarms in the ears of serious people: tort reform. After 20 years of state and federal efforts to reform a runaway legal system, the trial bar is reviving the monster.
We’re the Faces of Texas
We are Republicans, Democrats, and independents. We are small business owners, homemakers, and community volunteers. We are lawyers who want our profession back, and plant managers who want our companies to expand facilities to create jobs for Texans. We are consumers who want to eliminate the wasteful “tort tax” from the products and services we pay for. We are ranchers and teachers who have anguished over needless lawsuits. We are doctors and nurses who have seen our colleagues abandon their chosen professions because of the emotional and financial toll imposed by legal assaults. We are the citizens of Texas who want a better future for ourselves and our children. We’re the faces of Texas…more than 15,000 individual supporters in 818 towns and cities, representing 1,266 different trades, businesses and professions.