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Forum (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 10, 2009

Small Business Owners Deserve More Vigilance, Protection

More vigilant measures are needed to protect small businesses from lawsuit abuse, write John Kabateck and John Merchant. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By John Kabateck and John Merchant

Whatever change voters were seeking last November, there is no record of any mass of them calling for greater rights for lawyers to sue. Sensing a new political mood afoot in the nation, however, personal injury attorneys are girding their loins for another charge at changing state laws to enrich themselves through artificially aggrieved clients and billable hours - and nowhere is that more evident ...

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