“A Lawyer Who Tries to Block Settlements”

The Sep. 21 issue of Forbes magazine, now on newsstands, has a lengthy profile by Dan Fisher of my founding of the Center for Class Action Fairness, complete with a photo of my ugly mug gracing the story.

Of interest is a new revelation in the infamous Toshiba class action:

After few consumers availed themselves of a $2 billion settlement over supposedly defective laptop computers in 2000, for example, Toshiba America handed $353 million to a Beaumont charity whose chairman was plaintiff attorney Wayne Reaud, the lawyer on the case. Six years later the charity was still sitting on $250 million and the Texas attorney general sued for breach of fiduciary duty, including paying its president, W. Frank Newton, $560,000 in 2004. Newton is the former president of the State Bar of Texas.

3 Comments

  • You’re famous, Ted!

    Bob

  • Tort vigilante, your visage appears daily to me on Linked-In as someone I may know.

  • Now that is one Bad A$$ mug shot! Suitable no doubt for cover of that new video game “Grand Theft Class Action”