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Product Liability

Mar. 30, 2010

Stereotypes Rev Up in Toyota Case

With the international spotlight on every hiccup of the Toyota case, videos and photographs of lawyers swarming like ants outside a San Diego courthouse last week seems to have fed into some people's poor perception of lawyers.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - "Greed!! Greedy people, greedy lawyers... These people make me sick!"

That comment was left on a car aficionado Web site last week after more than 100 lawyers descended on a San Diego court to jockey for position in the mass tort against Toyota Motor Corp. for problems with sudden unintended acceleration.

It is one of the many negative rebukes som...

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