The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America's Lawsuit Factory
Please join us for an enlightening and educational fireside chat and reception with award-winning legal scholar, University of Georgia Law School Professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch. Professor Burch, an expert in mass torts and multidistrict litigation, will discuss her new, critically-acclaimed book, The Pain Brokers. Through masterful storytelling and painstaking research, The Pain Brokers tells the shocking, non-fiction tale of three women caught in a web of data breaches, telemarketing scammers, shady doctors, and profit-hungry lawyers who turned fears surrounding a faulty medical device affecting millions of women into a goldmine for themselves—at the physical and financial expense of the women. Prof. Burch’s captivating book follows two unlikely allies: Barbara Binis, a seasoned Philadelphia defense attorney hired to do financial damage control for the device manufacturer, and J.R. Baxter, a small-town Arkansas lawyer trying to achieve justice for the three women at the center of the story—Jerri Plummer, Barb Shepard, and Sharon Gore—along with over 180 others. Attendees need not have read the book to benefit from Professor Burch’s insights into the potential vulnerability of our justice system to abuse and opportunities to strengthen it against predators. KCMBA Event Center Only. MO: 1.2 / KS: pending. Sponsored by United States Courts - Western District of Missouri. To purchase a copy of Prof. Burch's book, please follow this link https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pain-Brokers/Elizabeth-Chamblee-Burch/9781668068861
Please join us for a reception following the event from 4-5pm.