Nine months after the national Association of Trial Lawyers of America tried to conceal from the public who they really are by changing their name, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers has followed suit, renaming itself the Ohio Association for Justice.
But the damage has already been done.
Removing the words "trial" and "lawyer" from their name won't erase the harm they've done to Ohio.
- The lawsuit system costs Ohioans over $10 billion each year.*
- In a survey of legal fairness, Ohio dropped from 24th in 2007 to 32nd in 2008.
*As measured by Towers Perrin Tillinghast's study of the total cost of the lawsuit system.
One only has to open up the newspaper to see stories of the damage that plaintiffs' trial lawyers are doing to Ohio.
The plaintiffs' trial lawyers' campaign to hide the truth of who they are from the American public by changing their name is their attempt to continue in their same old ways in Ohio unhindered.
If they want to be true advocates of justice for Ohioans, they'll end the injustice of frivolous lawsuits.
