Focus (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 8, 2008
Fair-Weather Fees
Focus Column - By Mark J. Hancock and Steven D. Wasserman - Some California provisions encourage the filing of weak claims and give far too much settlement leverage to plaintiffs.
By Mark J. Hancock and Steven D. Wasserman
This article appears on Page 7.
Congress and many state legislatures have enacted statutory schemes intended, in part, to help individuals pursue legal claims of such small monetary value that they hardly justify the expense of engaging counsel. The solution was to include provisions allowing the recovery of attorney fees by successful claimants. The idea was that this...
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