The Washington Examiner reported last week on a longstanding but increasingly common scheme by trial lawyers to enrich themselves, often at the expense of clients.
Breccan Thies's story outlined how plaintiff's lawyers are both enriching themselves and cheating members of the class on whose behalf they purport to be suing.The scam works like this: trial lawyers sue a large company, purporting to represent a broad class of plaintiffs.
Another case involved Wawa, the convenience store chain. Attorneys representing a class of customer data breach victims attempted to secure a settlement that would pay themselves three times as much money in attorney's fees as the actual victims were to get. Another illustrative case mentioned in Thies's piece is a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit that Alphabet, Google's parent company, settled in 2020. The agreement between that company and the attorneys bringing the case required the company to"invest" $310 million in so-called"diversity, equity, and inclusion" initiatives that won't help any of the victims, but might even provide Alphabet with a public relations benefit in the end.
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