Editor’s note: The author wrote this column in response to the Nov. 15 Mediation Circus column by Michael R. Panter, “As verdict amounts rise, when does it become too much?”Last week, while smashed in the corner of an elevator at the Daley Center, I was mentally contemplating how to avoid getting yelled at on the 22nd floor.In front of me, two neophyte members of the bar were talking about some of the recent injury verdicts and that the “tables were hot” in the courthouse. I asked them their …