Last year New York trial judge Herman Cahn ruled in favor of class-action giant Milberg in a high-profile dispute over whether it could share its winnings from past cases with disgraced felon and former name partner Melvyn Weiss, the firm's former driving force. Judge Cahn stepped down from the New York bench in December, and now it develops has been hired by Milberg as its "distinguished" new attorney. And you -- with the Wall Street Journal's editorialists today -- certainly have a suspicious mind. There probably won't be any shortage of funds with which to pay the former jurist: an American Lawyer headline last month read "Milberg Among Plaintiffs Firms Awarded $120 Million in Xerox Class Action". (cross-posted from Overlawyered)
Milberg hires judge who ruled in its favor
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