Who is Overlawyered?

Overlawyered is a law blog founded in 1999 by Walter Olsen and documents problems within the legal industry, from its high costs to resistance to reform. Olsen, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is also an author who writes about litigation and was called the “intellectual guru of tort reform” by the Washington Post.

Since 2003 Overlawyered has also had frequent input from Ted Frank, the founder of the Center for Class Action Fairness, and David Nieporent, a New Jersey attorney. The site also features guest bloggers.

Overlawyered provides links to more than a dozen other law blogs, including Althouse, and more than 50 categories, from Defensive Medicine to Deep Pocket Files to Politics.
Olsen edits Overlawyered, and his writing garnered national attention in 2009 for his postings on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and how it failed to adequately protect areas from thrift stores to children’s books. Olsen has also written for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, testified before Congress and appeared on “Oprah.”

Who is reading Overlawyered?

Overlawyered has more than 13,000 monthly readers in the U.S. and more than 34,000 globally and is linked to nearly 1,500 blogs and Web sites.

What is Overlawyered blogging about?

Recent postings include “Don’t You Dare Go Broke on Us”, “Italy: Geologists May Be Charged for Not Predicting Earthquake” and “EPA Treats Milk Like Oil Spills”.

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