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Documenting the piracy of Milberg Weiss
The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner May 29, 2008 3:00 AM (579 days ago)WASHINGTON Class-action lawsuit fraud is not a victimless crime. At the very least, it harms the clients on whose behalf the lawyers are supposed to be working. So concludes respected St. John’s University law professor Michael Perino in a new data-driven analysis that shows a clear correlation between the incidence of corruption within disgraced law firm Milberg Weiss and higher fee requests and fee awards by and to the firm. Of course, if a law firm receives a larger portion of a court settlement, the firm’s clients receive proportionally less — which, in Perino’s words, is indeed “a real economic harm” to those same clients.
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