“A federal judge in California last week criticized two lawyers for bringing an additional 49 law firms into a data-breach case, raising to 53 the total number of firms representing the plaintiffs….’What made you think I wanted 53 firms churning on this case?’,” asked U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, telling lawyers from Altschuler Berzon and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll that she was “deeply disappointed.” Koh went on to grant a request for a special master filed by Ted Frank, class action reformer with CEI and formerly a blogger in this space. [Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal]
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53 law firms on a single case? They won’t be able to get out of their own way, much less accomplish anything useful.
Loads of billable hours! How can that not be useful?
Bob
Unless you define “useful” as making fistfuls of dollars, regardless of benefit to the plaintiffs. That definition is so prevalent, it should be enshrined in Black’s Dictionary.
How else would a lawyer define useful?