Walter Olson: Supreme Legal Commentator

As we gear up for the Senate hearings to confirm President Obama’s nomination of Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s replacement, we thought we’d highlight Walter Olson.

Walter Olson is the principal blogger at overlawyered.com and www.pointoflaw.com.  His bio from the later website reads as follows:

Walter Olson is a commentator, author, and critic best known for his work on the American litigation system. A longtime senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, he has written three widely acclaimed books on the American litigation system: The Litigation Explosion, The Excuse Factory, and The Rule of Lawyers. His writing appears regularly in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and he writes a regular column on American law for the Times Online (U.K.). His approximately 400 broadcast appearances include “Crossfire”, the “Lehrer News Hour”, CNN “NewsNight”, and “Oprah”. In addition to editing PointofLaw.com, he founded and continues to run the popular Overlawyered.com weblog. He has frequently given testimony before lawmakers and advised public officials; the Washington Post has dubbed him an “intellectual guru of tort reform.”

We enjoy Mr. Olson’s commentary because he frequently offers insights from a different perspective.  Many people are familiar with Mr. Olson due to his passionate support for tort reform legislation, but Mr. Olson writes on a variety of topics with as much expertise as he does in his op-ed columns and other writings advocating tort reform.

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