Lester Brickman is a Manhattan Institute visiting scholar and a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. He is an expert in administrative alternatives to mass tort litigation, asbestos litigation, and contingency fee abuses and reform and is the author of a new book, Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America (Cambridge University Press, February 15, 2011). Professor Brickman has written extensively on these and other topics, he has testified at congressional hearings, and he is widely quoted in the press.