Sentences with phrase «lawyers than the plaintiffs»

Individual consumers can't afford to exercise their legal remedies, while class action claims are usually far more lucrative for plaintiff's lawyers than the plaintiffs themselves.

Not exact matches

All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

Rich Palma, president of Golden Pear Funding, said plaintiffs who take out advances receive better protection than borrowers may in other lending situations, because their own lawyers typically review, and often sign, advance agreements.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs said more than 90 former and current Google employees admitted to facing discrimination, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Graber may know a lot more about data breaches than the average lawyer — he is a key lawyer for plaintiffs in the massive data breach at Anthem Inc. that «compromised the personal identification and health information of more than 80 million customers of the health care company,» according to the law firm.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

It seems that the key point in certification being denied was that the plaintiffs» lawyers failed to demonstrate that the alleged actions (essentially shady selling of marketing services) were a company - wide / directed practice, rather than isolated cases.

Rather than provide any real smoking gun evidence to the case, this last citation of Oreskes only begs for a pair of really troubling questions: are the lawyers for the San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach plaintiffs committing legal profession suicidal by citing evidence which is not available to read?

Plaintiffs lawyers, however, are more helpful than defense lawyers.

«Rather than seeing the Avvo ratings for what they are — «that and $ 1.50 will get you a ride on Seattle's new South Lake Union Streetcar» — plaintiffs Browne and Wenokur want to make a federal case out of the number assigned to them because (a) it could harm their reputation, (b) it could cost them customers / fees, or (c) it could mislead the lawyer - hiring public into retaining poor lawyers or bypassing better lawyers.

This past weekend, the Sacramento Bee carried a lengthy article, Visionary law's litigious legacy (11/12/06), on how California's implementation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has lead to litigation over ADA violations, which end in payouts to individual plaintiffs and lawyers rather than access for the disabled.

According to PointofLaw.com, plaintiffs» attorneys are seeking a $ 1.6 billion federal tax break for contingent - fee lawyers that would allow them deduct expenses as made, rather than in the year of settling a suit.

The plaintiffs» lawyers, however, said they had no contact with the Toronto Sun about the facts of the case and had not discussed the circumstances of the accident with Mandel other than to say the information was in the public domain.

In practice for more than 15 years, Paul is an experienced and effective personal injury lawyer who has acted for both injured Plaintiffs and Defendant insurers.

So, when a case walks in the door, the defense lawyer makes the same analysis that plaintiffs lawyers make: what's the value of the case, can I do better than that and how long will it take to get to a resolution.

Big insurance companies and their lawyers understand that many plaintiffs will be tempted to settle for less than their claims are worth in order to avoid more delay and stress.

Some of the other overall findings include the statistical fact that plaintiffs in English courts win their cases 75 % of the time, which is more than double the US figure and that self - represented litigants i.e. litigants without a lawyer, generally beat expectations and were often very successful in court.

Insurance companies are turning a blind eye on legitimate injury cases and some plaintiffs lawyers are ignoring common sense and turning a blind eye when they know that they are putting up a less than legitimate case.

These CASES are typically very lucrative jobs for lawyers as their take an be exponentially larger than with a single persomal injuey plaintiff / client.

There are many strategic reasons why a plaintiff's lawyer may recommend an auto accident case go to arbitration rather than a jury.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the State Farm case are pursuing a separate case in federal court alleging that State Farm's involvement in his campaign amounted to a «racketeering enterprise» that conspired to funnel more than $ 4 million to elect Karmeier in 2004.

«The plaintiffs» lawyers» attack on the arbitration system — a process that has helped consumers resolve disputes for more than 85 years — is nothing more than their latest attempt to enrich themselves by opening the door for more class action lawsuits.»

The plaintiffs» lawyers, led by Alan Gura of Alexandria, Va.'s Gura & Possessky, said a review of the records will undercut the government's argument that the plaintiffs» petition for more than $ 3.1 million in fees is unreasonable.

In 2007, he was named to Lawdragon's 3000 Leading Plaintiffs» Lawyers in America list, which includes less than one percent of all the lawyers in ALawyers in America list, which includes less than one percent of all the lawyers in Alawyers in America.

Since its inception in 1988, Morgan & Morgan has grown to be the largest plaintiff's law firm in the country with more than 300 lawyers.

LAWPRO's counsel successfully argued that this was not a case where the plaintiff should be forced to seek compensation against her lawyers, rather than the accidents benefits insurer.

One of the biggest criticisms made by plaintiff ICBC injury claims lawyers was that the old Rule 37 was unfair to plaintiffs as a person injured in a car accident was always in a worse financial position to face the consequences of losing at trial than ICBC.

The complete absence of prejudice and the plaintiff's personal «innocence» in the delay carriedgreater weight than the nine - month delay in the litigation caused by her lawyer, even combined with the six - month delay in serving the motion.

Insurance defense attorney Robert Baker, who defended malpractice suits for more than 20 years, told Congress in 1994, «As a result of the caps on damages, most of the exceedingly competent plaintiff's lawyers in California simply will not handle a malpractice case... There are entire categories of cases that have been eliminated since malpractice reform was implemented in California.»

And to be fair, the recent deluge of self reps is pretty overwhelming and destabilizing for justice system professionals who have historically dealt with agents (lawyers and para-legals), rather than individual plaintiffs and defendants.

If a major corporation cheats a thousand of its workers out of a thousand dollars each, very few of them will decide it is worth the hassle and expense of a major lawsuit, and virtually no lawyer will be willing to take such a low dollar case on a contingency fee basis — meaning that the plaintiffs will have to pay more for legal counsel than they are likely to win in the end.

The plaintiff's lawyer thus issued a Notice of Application seeking approval of the settlement and requested specifically that the application hearing proceed in writing, rather than by way of an oral hearing.

Merely assigning lawyers to assess a settlement proposal from the perspective of a plaintiff or a defendant caused them to make different recommendations, with those advising plaintiffs willing to accept 10 - to 20 - per - cent less than the expected settlement value.

Second, if compensatory damages are really designed to compensate plaintiffs for actual harms to them, it hardly seems right that their lawyers should take a share of that compensation rather than be paid by the malfeasant defendant separately.

Although plaintiffs» lawyers were twice as likely to make a mistake (determined by getting a judgment less than the final settlement offer), defense counsels» errors were vastly more expensive for clients — the average costing $ 43,000 on the plaintiff side versus $ 1.1 million for the defense.

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Although Platnick dealt with a plaintiff who served the legal industry, rather than being a member of it, the principles are still important when considering claims of defamation, especially between lawyers.

Plaintiffs lawyers and insurance companies have waited more than three years for the state Supreme Court to take up the case of Yanting Zhang, a homeowner who sued her insurance company for false advertising after it repeatedly stalled her efforts to get recovery after an apartment fire.

With at least six Florida personal injury lawyers now facing unrelated criminal charges for defrauding auto insurers and the Sunshine State already in the running for this year's # 1 ranking among the nation's Judicial Hellholes, a panel of four federal judges last week imposed nearly $ 9.2 million in sanctions on two Jacksonville - based plaintiffs» firms for their shameless pursuit of more than 1,200 «frivolous and factually baseless lawsuits» against tobacco defendants... → Read More: Two Florida Firms» Fraudulent Tobacco Claims Draw Nearly $ 9.2 Million in Sanctions

Fixing legitimate warranty items is one thing, but many developers feel extorted by the demands of the contingent plaintiff lawyers who cash in on large settlements with insurance companies (sometimes earning fees larger than the actual repair work).