Lester Brickman is a Manhattan Institute visiting scholar and a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. He is an expert in administrative alternatives to mass tort litigation, asbestos litigation, and contingency fee abuses and reform and is the author of a new book, Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America (Cambridge University Press, February 15, 2011). Professor Brickman has written extensively on these and other topics, he has testified at congressional hearings, and he is widely quoted in the press.

Select Media

• Fox Business Network's "STOSSEL," 9/11 litigation
• InfoTrak's "Talk Zone," Lawyer Barons

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Articles/Op-eds

• No Recession For Tort Lawyers, Forbes, 07-23-09
• Contingency-Fee Con-Men, Wall Street Journal, 09-25-07
• What Did Those Asbestos X-Rays Really Show?, Wall Street Journal, 11-03-05
• The Great Asbestos Swindle, Wall Street Journal, 01-06-03
• The James Gang Robbed Banks. Lawyers Today Have A Better Idea., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 04-27-01

Books

• Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America, 2011

Research

• Asbestos Litigation Event Transcript, March 10, 2004
• Asbestos Litigation: Malignancy in the Courts? Civil Justice Memo/Forum 40, August 2002
• Anatomy of a Madison County (Illinois) Class Actions: A Study of Pathology Legal Policy Report 6, August 2002
• Class Action Reform: Beyond Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Civil Justice Memo/Forum (Research Memorandum 10), October 1995
• Rethinking Contingency Fees Civil Justice Memo/Forum (Booklet), January 1994

Podcasts

• Jim Copland and Lester Brickman discuss the evolution of asbestos litigation, 05-09-08