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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Class Actions

Class Action Reform: Beyond Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Civil Justice Memo/Forum, October 1995

Anatomy of a Madison County (Illinois) Class Actions: A Study of Pathology Legal Policy Report, August 2002

No Recession For Tort Lawyers Forbes, 07-23-09

Legal Issues

Class Action Reform: Beyond Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Civil Justice Memo/Forum, October 1995

Rethinking Contingency Fees Civil Justice Memo/Forum, January 1994

Asbestos Litigation: Malignancy in the Courts? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, August 2002

Anatomy of a Madison County (Illinois) Class Actions: A Study of Pathology Legal Policy Report, August 2002

Asbestos Litigation Event Transcript, March 10, 2004

The James Gang Robbed Banks. Lawyers Today Have A Better Idea. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 04-27-01

The Great Asbestos Swindle Wall Street Journal, 01-06-03

Contingency-Fee Con-Men Wall Street Journal, 09-25-07

What Did Those Asbestos X-Rays Really Show? Wall Street Journal, 11-03-05

Litigation Industry

Rethinking Contingency Fees Civil Justice Memo/Forum, January 1994

Contingency-Fee Con-Men Wall Street Journal, 09-25-07

What Did Those Asbestos X-Rays Really Show? Wall Street Journal, 11-03-05

Politics

The James Gang Robbed Banks. Lawyers Today Have A Better Idea. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 04-27-01

The Great Asbestos Swindle Wall Street Journal, 01-06-03

Products Liability

Asbestos Litigation: Malignancy in the Courts? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, August 2002

Asbestos Litigation Event Transcript, March 10, 2004

Reform Proposals

Class Action Reform: Beyond Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Civil Justice Memo/Forum, October 1995