So happy to be in Chicago talking with @northwesternlaw.bsky.social students about The Pain Brokers today! Up next: @barbarasbookstore.bsky.social tomorrow, April 10, at 5:00 PM (Macy's location) with the fabulous Myram Gilles. Hope y'all can join us!

Hi Chicago friends! I'm heading your way this week to talk about The Pain Brokers with the brilliant Myriam Gilles. Please join us if you're in the area--we'd love to say hi.

Chameleon just released an episode dedicated to The Pain Brokers. Once a scammer has your medical history, the rest becomes disturbingly easy. Listen to hear two key voices in the book: Sharon Gore & Ron Lasorsa. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Hey Nashville! Today, April 1 (no fooling), I'll be talking with Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick about The Pain Brokers. Law + medicine + so many shenanigans. Come join us at 5:30 at the Vanderbilt Bookstore on West End.

Thrilled to kick off the Prawfsblawg symposium on The Pain Brokers with a powerful essay by Myriam Gilles. Her core insight: this isn't just a story about fraud--it's what happens when civil litigation learns to operate without clients. Check out the claims pipeline. prawfsblawg.com/symposium-th...

HAPPENING TODAY! Come check out my friend's new bookstore in Kennesaw, GA, and say hi at 4:00 PM!

Hi to my Greenville, SC friends! I'll be up your way on Tuesday, March 24 at 5:30 PM for a conversation with Prof. Carmela Epright of Furman University. We'll be at one of my favorite bookstores, M. Judson Booksellers talking about The Pain Brokers. I'd love to say hi if you can make it!

Looking forward to joining @mariahblake.bsky.social (The Poisoned the World) and Gardiner Harris (No More Tears) for a discussion moderated by @corinnepurtill.bsky.social on corporate power, law, and public health at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on April 18 at 10:30 AM. Hope you can join us!

Hi friends! I'm hitting the road with The Pain Brokers and would really love to see y'all. Please come say hi if you can make it! ❤️📚

I’m heading to Marietta on March 21 for a conversation about The Pain Brokers at The Brown Dog Bookshop with Dale Hughes. If you’re nearby, come say hello. RSVP — space is limited. www.thebrowndogbookshop.com/events/meet-...

Thanks to Peter Biello & Orlando Montoya in concert with NPR, Georgia Public Broadcasting & The Narrative Edge for shining a light on The Pain Brokers! Full episode with my face being slightly more normal-sized is available here: gpb.org/blogs/narrat... #TrueCrime #MassTorts

Davidson, NC folks, I’ll be @mainstreetbooksdav.bsky.social tomorrow at 7 PM discussing The Pain Brokers w/ Prof. Katie Horowitz. We’ll talk about con men, call centers, rogue doctors, & the gender dynamics of this con. If you’re nearby, come say hello! #NorthCarolina #DavidsonNC #IndieBookstore

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Hey Columbus, GA, friends, I’ll be at Columbus Bound Bookshop on Feb. 17 at 6 PM discussing The Pain Brokers. I’m excited to talk with Joel O. Wooten, one of the country’s most respected plaintiff’s lawyers. Hope you can join us! #AuthorEvent #Georgia #LegalEthics

Charlotte/Davidson, NC friends, if you're nearby, I'd love to say hello! I'll be @mainstreetbooksdav.bsky.social on Feb. 19 at 7 PM for a conversation about The Pain Brokers and the hidden machinery behind America’s mass-tort industry. #AuthorEvent #NorthCarolina #Books

If you’ve been carrying a story idea—an essay, a reported project, a memoir, a book—consider the Low-Residency Narrative Nonfiction MFA at UGA’s Grady School of Journalism. Applications are open. #NarrativeNonfiction #CreativeNonfiction #MFAWriting #AmWriting #UGA grady.uga.edu/academics/lo...

The Pain Brokers' upcoming events! I’m grateful for the chance to be in conversation with such thoughtful hosts, bookstores, and institutions over the next few months. Hope to see some of you along the way! More details via the host venues listed on the flyer.

Yesterday was of those days that reminds me how worthwhile teaching is. I’m an FSU Law alum, later taught at FSU, and now—years into my time at UGA Law—got to discuss The Pain Brokers with my former FSU student, Lauren Purdy, now an equity partner. Public legal education matters!

Hi Jacksonville friends! I'll be in your neck of the woods on Thursday, February 5, talking about The Pain Brokers with the Federal Court Bar Association. I'd love to see you there. Here's a link to register: www.jaxfedbar.org/event/the-pa...

One of the worst things I heard while researching The Pain Brokers was how often women felt invisible, like a number on a spreadsheet. I talked with Court Accountability Network + @legalafmtn.bsky.social about what needs to change. 🎥 Full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjB2...

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, University of Georgia School of Law professor and author, joins Court Accountability Action’s Darcy McConnell and Alyssa Bowen to discuss her new book The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory. Tune in below.

Podcast alert 🎧 I joined journalist Merrill Goozner to talk about The Pain Brokers, the true story behind a lawsuit factory that treated women’s bodies like profit centers, and what it reveals about mass torts, medical harm, and the justice system. Listen here 👉 gooznews.substack.com/p/podcast-th...

My 101 on how cold-air damming (aka "The Wedge") is shaping the Southern Ice Storm this weekend. Features my colleagues John Knox Pam Knox and Bradford Johnson, Ph.D. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Storm prep isn’t just supplies—it’s stories. If you don’t have a hard copy of The Pain Brokers yet, you can listen to Audie Award–winning narrator Cassandra Campbell read it aloud. Sometimes a winter storm calls for being read a story. ❄️🎧 #WinterStormPrep #Audiobooks #ThePainBrokers #ReadingWeather

I’m grateful to Law.com for this interview on The Pain Brokers—a book about pelvic mesh litigation and the mass tort machinery that profited from women’s pain. The hardcover is just $6 on Amazon right now. #ThePainBrokers #MassTorts #WomensHealth #LegalNonfiction #Justice

The first bellwether trial in the Paragard IUD MDL starts today in the Northern District of Georgia. Here's a great overview of what it's about and what's at stake. #WomensHealth #masstorts #MDL www.thecut.com/article/iud-...

Book clubs reading The Pain Brokers: I’m happy to join your discussion via Zoom for a Q&A on the reporting, the writing, and the women at the center of the book. Just email me if you’d like to set it up.

$6.00!! Limited time. Get yours quick! 👇 www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

🧵Debut week for The Pain Brokers has been a wonderful whirlwind! Thank you to my brilliant conversation partners: • Dr. Jon Peters of the Grady College of Journalism • Judge Richard Story of the Northern District of Georgia

"You have a ticking time bomb in you." I talk with Kate Powell about what happens behind the scenes of THE PAIN BROKERS, which is out now everywhere you buy books! Full convo here: open.substack.com/pub/bethburc...

Want to know what really happens in Vegas when everyone in the #masstort industry convenes? Read THE PAIN BROKERS, but get a sneak peek via @slate.com. Full read: slate.com/news-and-pol...

PUB DAY for THE PAIN BROKERS! Come celebrate with me at the Athens-Clarke County Public Library Jan. 13, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. I'll talk with Dr. Jon Peters of @ugagrady.bsky.social & Ghost will be there with books for sale! #ThePainBrokers #PubDay #TrueCrimeBooks #WomensHealth

Did You Read That DocuSign Before Clicking? These Women’s Stories Show Why You Should  📚⚖️Elizabeth Chamblee Burch’s riveting “The Pain Brokers,” reveals the multi-million dollar scam hiding in the fine print. @eburch.bsky.social @attriabooks.bsky.social 🙏Thanks for ARC #BookSky bit.ly/4jB7h6K

@eburch.bsky.social exposes the scumbags behind shady doctors and telemarketing schemes that defrauded thousands of women: “It was like a Wall Street boiler room operation…and it was fucking magnificent.”

A call center. A script. A system designed to terrify women and turn harm into profit. Today, @literaryhub.bsky.social published an excerpt from THE PAIN BROKERS, about how women were pulled into a legal and medical machine built to extract value, not deliver care or justice.

First signed copies of THE PAIN BROKERS at @barnesandnoble.com Athens! This story that I've held close since 2021 is in your hands now and out everywhere JAN 13. It feels a little tender & terrifying to share it with the world. I hope that you fall in love with the people in it as I have. ❤️

How do you scam thousands of women out of millions of dollars? 💵 Law Professor Elizabeth Burch investigated a medical fraud scheme so sophisticated, even she was shocked by how it operated. 🔗 Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517

Thanks a zillion to @abovethelaw.com for the endorsement! PS - ATL fans, the legal zine appears in the Prologue! #ThePainBrokers #AboveTheLaw #LegalEthics #nonfiction

One miracle of book writing is watching it land in the hand of a writer you've admired for years. I'm so thankful to Melissa Fay Greene for reading THE PAIN BROKERS and giving it such a kind blurb. Her work has been and remains a north star for narrative nonfiction. #PrayingForSheetrock

Debut-author life = agony, joy, & 3am “OMG someone might read this” sweats. Grateful to have Alison Miller & Diana Keough in the trenches with me. Seeing THE PAIN BROKERS next to ROUGH HOUSE @barnesandnoble.com = all the feels. B&N has 25% off preorders through Jan 1. 📚 Get both! #bnpreorder

A 🧵on 🥼 THE DOCTORS 🥼 They wore white coats. They had medical licenses. And they operated on women who were terrified they had a “ticking time bomb” inside their bodies. #ThePainBrokers #MedicalAccountability #InvestigativeJournalism #TrueCrime #mesh

Rhett McSweeney & Dave Langevin weren’t mass tort power players. They were hustlers on the fringe—Facebook ads, cartoon explainer videos, dog-bite cases—who likely dreamed of the big leagues. Then 2 men from FL came into their orbit. A flood of clients followed. So did the subpoenas and the drama.

What's hiding in some attorney-client retainer agreements? Contingent fees should mean access to justice, but as you'll see, that's not always the case.

Super grateful to John T. Edge for this! John T. "reports and tells the hell out of" stories himself. Don't miss HOUSE OF SMOKE, a book that’ll make your mouth water and your eyes tear up, sometimes all at once. 🔥📚 #Books #Nonfiction #HouseOfSmoke #TrueSouth #ThePainBrokers

Need a book rec or a craft tip? Read Casey Cep's Furious Hours! It's a terrific reminder that courtroom scenes needn't be dusty or slow—they can gallop. Cep’s pacing, tension, attention to detail…all of it shaped how I wrote the legal battles in The Pain Brokers.

Meet the masterminds behind a criminal conspiracy that solicited over 100,000 women. These men built an empire on women's pain—cold-calling victims, terrifying them about their pelvic mesh, then steering them to unnecessary surgeries they couldn't afford. #TrueCrime #MassTorts

Need gift ideas? 🎁📚Books, always books! Here are a few of my favorites: legal page-turners, true-crime gems, craft books I swear by, and even some beloved kid picks. #HolidayGiftGuide #Nonfiction #Books

A huge thank you to @stevevladeck.bsky.social for this incredible blurb. Steve is one of the sharpest observers of our legal system—and one of the most generous humans in it. If you haven't read his book, The Shadow Docket, what are you waiting for? Read it, then The Pain Brokers (out Jan. 13)!

What happens when a beloved brand masks some of the most shocking corporate misconduct in American history? Gardiner Harris’s No More Tears pulls back the curtain on Johnson & Johnson. Essential reading for anyone who cares about accountability and women’s health. #Books #Nonfiction #BookRecs

Does Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism? Should women tough out pain and fever? Dr. Tami Rowen is concerned about advice telling women to suffer without safe treatment options. Hear what science says: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517