Word: shrager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that issue soon. Dissenter William Brennan thought the majority had done enough already. "In case after case, I have witnessed the court's gradual but determined strangulation of the rule," he wrote. "It now appears that the court's victory over the Fourth Amendment is complete." David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, agreed. "Good faith is just a code word for saying we're sick and tired of the exclusionary rule," he complained...
...Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry. "I'm really soured on the legal system." Some members of the bar, however, believe that Burger was out of order in portraying lawyers as villains in such melodramatic language. "The Chief Justice has a lot of important and valid comments," concedes David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, "but it is absoutely inexcusable to use phrases such as 'procurers' and 'hired guns.' " Indeed, says David Trubek, professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, the average lawyer is nothing like the person Burger describes...
...weak at best," he says. Wisconsin Law Professor Marc Galanter, who has studied Trubek's research as well as other data on how Americans resolve their differences, is even more emphatic. The alleged litigation explosion, he says, is "a strong admixture of naive speculation and undocumented assertion." Shrager believes that the latest research finally gives support to trial lawyers after years of criticism from the Chief Justice. He says, "I get curiouser and curiouser that he doesn't seem to communicate an accurate overview of how our system of justice is operating...