Bill Marler’s business is booming — and that’s not great for the rest of us.
Marler is a food safety lawyer, defending people who’ve been sickened by foodborne illness. He has been doing this for 33 years, with such high-profile wins that he’s become a towering figure in the food safety world.
This year, he’s so slammed with foodborne-illness cases that, for the first time in years, he’s expanding his team — hiring another lawyer and a couple of paralegals. “We just have too much shit to do,” Marler said.
This summer alone, Americans have been warned about a massive Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce — 10,930 confirmed illnesses, 454…
