Via Peter Lattman, Bill Lerach, unhappy with press coverage of an embarrassing defeat in an attempt to blackmail companies with meritless (but highly risky) litigation over Enron, sends the WSJ a nastygram, and the WSJ responds.
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Ted Frank on December 22, 2006
Via Peter Lattman, Bill Lerach, unhappy with press coverage of an embarrassing defeat in an attempt to blackmail companies with meritless (but highly risky) litigation over Enron, sends the WSJ a nastygram, and the WSJ responds.
Tagged as: Bill Lerach, loser pays, nastygrams

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