Attorneys' Fees and Ethics FORUM ARCHIVE
Compared with the legal systems of many other countries, that of the United States is unusually broad-minded in the ethical rules it applies to the legal profession: it indulges more zealous representation and leeway for entrepreneurial lawyering, while placing less emphasis on the idea that lawyers are "officers of the court" with broader obligations to the cause of justice who must not pursue every option that might be profitable for themselves or their clients... Continue reading...
Backing Down on the Colorado War of Initiatives By Carter Wood, 05-07-2008 When contingency arrangements are nonstandard By Walter Olson, 05-06-2008 GOP House Leader Calls for Hearings into Milberg Weiss By Carter Wood, 05-02-2008 Lawyer liable for failure to denounce other lawyer whom he knew was defrauding a client By Michael Krauss, 04-30-2008 Colorado Trio of Activities: Legislate, Litigate, Initiate By Carter Wood, 04-25-2008 Still Waiting for the Congressional Hearings By Carter Wood, 04-21-2008 Spent 247,000 hours on Enron suits? Please document By Walter Olson, 04-18-2008 Third-party litigation finance -- for defendants? By Walter Olson, 04-17-2008 Contingent Fee Lawyers Lose Case, Use Outrageous Trial Tactics, Still Get $218M in Fees By Michael Krauss, 04-16-2008 Santa Clara v. Superior Court By Ted Frank, 04-15-2008 Roger Parloff on Dickie Scruggs By Ted Frank, 04-10-2008 $568 million to fen-phen trial lawyers By Ted Frank, 04-10-2008 Disbarred attorney sues casinos for not noticing her addiction By Michael Krauss, 04-04-2008 WLF Webcast on Lawyer Misconduct By James R. Copland, 03-27-2008 Around the web, March 27 By Walter Olson, 03-27-2008 Third-party litigation funding in the U.K. By Walter Olson, 03-20-2008 Cruise line to seek fees in attorney scandal By Walter Olson, 03-20-2008 When chiropractors solicit crash victims By Walter Olson, 03-15-2008 Scruggs enters guilty plea By Walter Olson, 03-14-2008 State Attorney Generals Abuse Their Power By Hans Bader, 02-25-2008 Wall St. Journal Editorial: Lerach Gets Two By Michael Krauss, 02-12-2008 Lerach: keep my sentencing briefs under seal By Ted Frank, 02-01-2008 Great moments in legal ethics, the follow-up By Walter Olson, 01-31-2008 New featured column: Richard Nagareda on mass tort settlement By Walter Olson, 01-28-2008 Magistrate upholds Ky. fen-phen indictments By Walter Olson, 01-24-2008 Great moments in legal ethics By Walter Olson, 01-16-2008 Joey Langston charged, cops guilty plea By Walter Olson, 01-14-2008 Valorem Law Group By Ted Frank, 01-11-2008 "Ex-Milberg Weiss honcho to head NYC Bar" By Walter Olson, 01-11-2008 Massachusetts adopts payee notification By Walter Olson, 01-10-2008 Mississippi ethics program By Walter Olson, 01-09-2008 Regulating legal-funding companies? By Walter Olson, 01-04-2008 Fraudulent Plaintiff's Attorney Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt By Michael Krauss, 12-26-2007 Disqualification of attorney who comes into possession of adversaries' notes By Michael Krauss, 12-26-2007 Cincinnati Enquirer on fen-phen scandal By Walter Olson, 12-19-2007 "This was ordinary conduct that lawyers do" By Michael Krauss, 12-12-2007 Judge Alexander to Mr. Scruggs: fly commercial By Michael Krauss, 12-10-2007 But your honor, we don’t fly commercial…. By Michael Krauss, 12-09-2007 King of Torts sentenced to 15 years in federal "palace" By Michael Krauss, 12-05-2007 Legal ethics highlights of 2007 By Walter Olson, 12-04-2007 Wall-to-wall Scruggsblogging By Walter Olson, 12-03-2007 Latest on Dickie Scruggs indictment By Walter Olson, 11-30-2007 Chutzpah By Ted Frank, 11-11-2007 Terry Collingsworth, Chevron, Ecuador, and the press By Walter Olson, 10-25-2007 Ethics letter to ABA on separately negotiated fees By Walter Olson, 10-24-2007 Yet more on Lynne Stewart By Michael Krauss, 10-17-2007 Lynne Stewart appearance at Hofstra By Walter Olson, 10-17-2007 "Competing for Clients, and Paying by the Click" By Walter Olson, 10-15-2007 Where are the bar authorities? By Walter Olson, 10-05-2007 Switching sides in the BP case By Walter Olson, 10-03-2007 "Milberg Weiss faces the music" By Ted Frank, 10-02-2007 Consumer protection where consumer protection is needed By Ted Frank, 09-19-2007 Lerach's guilty plea By Ted Frank, 09-19-2007 Lerach to bite the dust By Michael Krauss, 09-18-2007 $500/hr is enough! By Michael Krauss, 09-12-2007 WSJ on Kentucky fen-phen scandal By Walter Olson, 08-20-2007 Trial Lawyers, Inc. Update: Judicial Lead-ership By James R. Copland, 08-02-2007 Judge rules N.Y. lawyer-ad rules unconstitutional By Walter Olson, 07-25-2007 Around the web, July 16 By Walter Olson, 07-16-2007 Into the memory hole By Ted Frank, 07-10-2007 Breaking: Name Milberg Weiss partner to plead guilty By Ted Frank, 07-09-2007 Contingent Fee Need Not Be Disgorged After Appeal Reversal! By Michael Krauss, 06-27-2007 Virginia's full employment act for traffic lawyers By Larry Ribstein, 06-25-2007 Government and outside counsel: DC By Michael Krauss, 06-25-2007 "A few French fries short" By Walter Olson, 06-23-2007 Paying for pro bono By Larry Ribstein, 06-19-2007 Breaking: federal judge refers criminal contempt charges against Scruggs to US Attorney By Ted Frank, 06-15-2007 NY Plaintiffs' Lawyer in Flagrant Ethical Breach By Michael Krauss, 06-15-2007 Breaking: Federal indictments in Kentucky fen-phen scandal By Ted Frank, 06-14-2007 Lerach to quit? By James R. Copland, 05-31-2007 Kentucky fen-phen follies: Abbott v Chesley and Bonar v Chesley updates By Ted Frank, 05-15-2007 Update: Robles cops a 10-year sentence By Walter Olson, 05-07-2007 Ross Billing Ethics Survey By Ted Frank, 05-02-2007 $255K in legal fees for an $11K claim By Michael Krauss, 04-25-2007 Reasons to be Skeptical of Civil Juries By David Bernstein, 04-19-2007 Brewing breast implant fee scandal? By Ted Frank, 04-15-2007 Contingent-fee experts? By Ted Frank, 04-09-2007 Kentucky fen-phen court: "Chesley was paid more than he should have been" By Ted Frank, 04-05-2007 "Fen-Phen Zen" By Ted Frank, 04-04-2007 Contingency fees lure business firms By Walter Olson, 04-02-2007 Thanks so much, Sen. Specter By Walter Olson, 03-29-2007 One lawyer's conscience on fees By Walter Olson, 03-27-2007 AOL securities opt-outs By Walter Olson, 03-08-2007 The trouble with cy pres By Ted Frank, 02-15-2007 Was Milberg satisfied, or just shy? By Walter Olson, 02-13-2007 Married Lawyers Face Charges for Payment Demands After Wife's Liaisons By Michael Krauss, 02-08-2007 Cooperman to plead guilty to Milberg Weiss kickbacks By Ted Frank, 02-01-2007 Kentucky fen-phen scandal By Walter Olson, 01-24-2007 "How my ex-hubby paid to be judge" By Walter Olson, 01-24-2007 Update: disbarred asbestos lawyer By Walter Olson, 01-22-2007 Update: Ohio court finds fraud in asbestos case By Ted Frank, 01-19-2007 "If I had my way, I'd be a barrister" By Walter Olson, 01-09-2007 Going bare By Walter Olson, 01-08-2007 New York lawyer advertising rules By Walter Olson, 01-06-2007 "Top Ten Legal Ethics Stories of 2006" By Walter Olson, 01-04-2007 Worse still for Mr. Lerach By Michael Krauss, 12-30-2006 A troubled December for Milberg Weiss By Ted Frank, 12-29-2006 Lerach's involuntary client II By Ted Frank, 12-28-2006 AOL securities class action By Walter Olson, 12-22-2006 Lawyer threatens criminal sanction against client who refuses to pay excessive fee By Michael Krauss, 12-21-2006 Milberg Weiss's indictment for kickbacks results in disqualification By Michael Krauss, 12-19-2006 Lerach's involuntary client By Ted Frank, 12-15-2006 Schulman's Milberg departure, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-15-2006 The First Amendment and Lawyer Blogs By Larry Ribstein, 12-13-2006 Fred Baron: Baron & Budd pleading "frivolous, abusive and troubling" By Ted Frank, 12-09-2006 Schulman quits Milberg Weiss By Walter Olson, 12-08-2006 Australia legalizes champerty; prize money By Walter Olson, 12-06-2006 January 8, 2008 By Ted Frank, 11-28-2006 Judge: Tell how you became Milberg plaintiffs By Walter Olson, 11-16-2006 Fortune and Sebok on Milberg Weiss By Ted Frank, 11-07-2006 "3rd Circuit Revives Case Against Asbestos Class Action Lawyers" By Walter Olson, 11-03-2006 The Lynne Stewart Story By Michael Krauss, 10-20-2006 Milberg "radioactive" By Walter Olson, 10-16-2006 Comment period extended on NY lawyer-ad rules By Walter Olson, 10-08-2006 Post-traumatic stress disorder after fender-bender... By Michael Krauss, 10-05-2006 New column: foiling dishonest lawyers By Walter Olson, 10-04-2006 Arnold vetoes two bills in Sacramento By Walter Olson, 10-03-2006 More Milberg indictments? By Walter Olson, 09-22-2006 Silencing N.Y. lawyer-bloggers? By Walter Olson, 09-20-2006 "Accusations of 'double dipping' surface" By Ted Frank, 09-11-2006 "Shlep: Self-Help Law Express" By Walter Olson, 09-07-2006 Lawyers the Only Professionals Not Yet Caught for Their Corruption? By Michael Krauss, 09-03-2006 Comair crash solicitation By Walter Olson, 09-02-2006 It happens but seldom By Walter Olson, 08-30-2006 Asbestos double-dipping By Ted Frank, 08-28-2006 Pat Hynes leaving Milberg Weiss By James R. Copland, 08-25-2006 Kentucky fen-phen lawyers suspended By Ted Frank, 08-25-2006 Milberg Weiss "nearing iceberg" By Walter Olson, 08-23-2006 Consumer disclosure 101, for lawyers By Walter Olson, 08-22-2006 Mustn't discourage these things, you know By Walter Olson, 08-21-2006 "Fred Baron Sues Firm He Founded" By Walter Olson, 08-17-2006 Milberg Weiss update By Ted Frank, 08-07-2006 Peacocks in the barnyard By Walter Olson, 07-24-2006 Milberg disclosure By Walter Olson, 07-22-2006 Whistleblower lawyer reproached for double-dip fee By Walter Olson, 07-20-2006 Milberg partners plead not guilty By Walter Olson, 07-18-2006 Milberg indictment vs. Andersen indictment By Walter Olson, 07-14-2006 Lawyers' Obnoxious Fees, Ctd. By Michael Krauss, 07-08-2006 How much lawyers' work is worth $300 million? By Michael Krauss, 07-07-2006 John C. Coffee, Jr., on Milberg case By Walter Olson, 07-07-2006 Legalized Extortion Department: the HMO class actions By Ted Frank, 07-05-2006 Does the KPMG case help Milberg Weiss? By Ted Frank, 06-29-2006 Junk Ethics By Michael Krauss, 06-28-2006 I stole from my clients by accident... By Michael Krauss, 06-28-2006 Lawyers Serving Our Country By Michael Krauss, 06-28-2006 H.R. 5491 By Sam Munson, 06-26-2006 Milberg Weiss scandal: the Vogel guilty plea By Ted Frank, 06-25-2006 Milberg-Weissgate: Plaintiffs' firms close ranks around Lerach? By Ted Frank, 06-22-2006 Milberg ReLieff By Sam Munson, 06-22-2006 Racism in Corporate Law Firms By Michael Krauss, 06-21-2006 More Milberg By Sam Munson, 06-20-2006 Milberg recusals galore By Walter Olson, 06-12-2006 ATRA Billboard Condemns Attorneys' Fraud By Michael Krauss, 06-09-2006 Nevada state courts By Ted Frank, 06-09-2006 Gilbert Heintz Disgorgement By Sam Munson, 06-07-2006 R.I. Supremes Decline to Decide Due Process/Contingent Fee Challenge By Michael Krauss, 06-05-2006 Jarndyce and Jarndyce and Boies By Sam Munson, 06-05-2006 From A Sinking Ship By Sam Munson, 05-30-2006 KPMG lead plaintiff: I was offered inducements By Walter Olson, 05-26-2006 Our lawyer licensing discussion By Walter Olson, 05-25-2006 Milberg kickbacks defensible? By Walter Olson, 05-25-2006 Milberg Weiss: Where was Eliot Spitzer? By Ted Frank, 05-24-2006 Third Milberg guilty plea By Ted Frank, 05-23-2006 NYTimes: what Milberg story? By Walter Olson, 05-23-2006 Class action refresher course By Walter Olson, 05-22-2006 "Inside Milberg's Credenza" By Walter Olson, 05-22-2006 Blogs on Milberg indictment, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-21-2006 Featured Discussion By Sam Munson, 05-19-2006 Milberg Weiss Indictment Roundup By Jonathan B. Wilson, 05-19-2006 Milberg Weiss Indictment By Sam Munson, 05-18-2006 Client consumer protection: "payee notification" laws By Walter Olson, 05-18-2006 Bershad and Schulman By Sam Munson, 05-17-2006 Shifting asbestos theories By Walter Olson, 05-16-2006 Tried in the press By Walter Olson, 05-15-2006 Is Lawyer Licensing Necessary? Part II By Jonathan B. Wilson, 05-11-2006 More on competing with lawyers By Walter Olson, 05-11-2006 Lawyer licensing: the poll By Larry Ribstein, 05-10-2006 Is lawyer licensing necessary: a response to Wilson By Larry Ribstein, 05-08-2006 Ohio judge will allow scrutiny of shifting asbestos claims By Ted Frank, 05-07-2006 Is lawyer licensing really necessary? By Larry Ribstein, 05-06-2006 Blogs and pending cases: prosecutor-blogger now a composer By Michael Krauss, 04-30-2006 For Motley Rice, chicken every Sunday By Walter Olson, 04-30-2006 First guilty plea in Milberg Weiss investigation By Ted Frank, 04-29-2006 Piling on... By Michael Krauss, 04-24-2006 Vioxx: thoughts on the Blevins statement By Ted Frank, 04-20-2006 Classroom! Behave! By Walter Olson, 04-20-2006 No punitive damages verdict yet in McDarby By Ted Frank, 04-10-2006 Jumpin' Joe Jamail By Tom Kirkendall, 04-08-2006 New Twist In Milberg Weiss By Sam Munson, 04-07-2006 Lead Paint Fights Back By Sam Munson, 04-05-2006 Rhode Island lead paint By Ted Frank, 04-02-2006 Pay-for-play AG operations By Walter Olson, 03-31-2006 Lawyer Drops Client Because Harvard Students Don't Like Client By Michael Krauss, 03-21-2006 Silicosis doctors take the Fifth By Walter Olson, 03-15-2006 Lessons from bankruptcy fees By Larry Ribstein, 03-09-2006 Judge resigns in Ky. fen-phen scandal By Walter Olson, 03-06-2006 A note on the bar exam By Ted Frank, 02-22-2006 BREAKING: No indictment of Lerach By Ted Frank, 02-21-2006 Gilbert Heintz ordered to disgorge $13 million in Congoleum case By Ted Frank, 02-20-2006 "Controlling the 1-800-SUE-THEM lawyers" By Walter Olson, 02-15-2006 Blogosphere on litigation financing By Ted Frank, 02-14-2006 Schaeffer on litigation financing By Ted Frank, 02-13-2006 "Essentially, owning his own plaintiff" By Walter Olson, 02-13-2006 Pirate's Booty settlement struck By Ted Frank, 02-09-2006 Law firms and HIPAA By Walter Olson, 02-01-2006 Vioxx legal bill for 2005: $285 million By Ted Frank, 01-31-2006 Bedfellows: Lerach and the unions By Ted Frank, 01-30-2006 Plaintiffs' lawyers can be sued for consumer fraud in CO By Michael Krauss, 01-25-2006 Dumbest judicial ethics story ever By Walter Olson, 01-25-2006 Welding rod shenanigans By Walter Olson, 01-22-2006 Kirkendall on Seymour Lazar By Ted Frank, 01-20-2006 Trial lawyers and state AGs, so happy together By Walter Olson, 01-12-2006 "Top Ten Legal Ethics Stories of 2005" By Walter Olson, 01-10-2006 "Indicted Lawyer's Firm Smelled Trouble" By Ted Frank, 01-03-2006 Switching sides... By Michael Krauss, 01-03-2006 Steven Hantler profile By Ted Frank, 12-29-2005 One of the Biggest Legal Scandals in History By Michael Krauss, 12-23-2005 Those 4,202 Mississippi silicosis claims By Walter Olson, 12-22-2005 Silica Litigation: Screening, Scheming and Suing By Michael Krauss, 12-12-2005 Welding: Boren loses; Dewey Morgan caught lying By Ted Frank, 12-09-2005 Mark Lanier's curious tactic in the Ernst v. Merck Vioxx litigation By Ted Frank, 11-28-2005 Realtors' fees, and lawyers' By Walter Olson, 11-28-2005 Budget Rent A Car System Inc. v. Consolidated Equity By Ted Frank, 11-24-2005 Final update: Oracle settlement By Ted Frank, 11-23-2005 U.K. mulls allowing contingent fees By Walter Olson, 11-14-2005 Brickman in Saturday's WSJ By Walter Olson, 11-07-2005 "A very dangerous lawsuit": the tactics of Mikal Watts By Ted Frank, 11-02-2005 Ernst v. Merck jurors cash in By Ted Frank, 10-25-2005 Zealous representation: a (wordy) response to Evan Schaeffer By Ted Frank, 10-20-2005 Asbestos: Congoleum law firm had conflict of interest By Walter Olson, 10-18-2005 Miers and legal-fee curbs By Walter Olson, 10-11-2005 Trouble at Thunderhead Ranch By Walter Olson, 10-09-2005 Smart Plaintiffs/Foolish Lawsuits? By Walter Olson, 10-05-2005 Ninth Circuit refuses to discipline judge By Ted Frank, 10-01-2005 Mississippi fen-phen scandal By Walter Olson, 09-28-2005 The "litigation finance" industry By Walter Olson, 09-28-2005 Boston invests in pepper ball case By Walter Olson, 09-27-2005 Chiropractic kickbacks By Walter Olson, 09-22-2005 Contingency-fee curbs By Walter Olson, 09-21-2005 "Fees of the assumption" By Walter Olson, 08-29-2005 And a fen-phen indictment By Ted Frank, 08-27-2005 Unearthing asbestos-suit misconduct By Walter Olson, 08-27-2005 Fewer cheers for contingency fees By Walter Olson, 08-25-2005 Two Cheers For Contingent Fees By Ted Frank, 08-24-2005 A hopeless conflict of interest By Walter Olson, 08-23-2005 WLF Webcast Thursday: "Trial Lawyers' Enron" By James R. Copland, 08-22-2005 Allegedly unconscionable contingent fee arrangements By Walter Olson, 08-10-2005 Milberg probe heats up By Walter Olson, 08-08-2005 New from the Washington Legal Foundation By James R. Copland, 07-29-2005 Lying with Statistics - Ernst v. Merck edition By Ted Frank, 07-29-2005 New York grand jury also going after asbestos plaintiffs? By Ted Frank, 07-20-2005 Wikipedia, Free Markets and Contingency Fees By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-19-2005 Okla. AG vs. Ark. chicken farms By Walter Olson, 07-19-2005 Health-care whistleblowers By Walter Olson, 07-13-2005 "Ethical Issues in Asbestos Litigation" By Ted Frank, 07-11-2005 Will Milberg Weiss Become the 'Enron' of the Plaintiffs' Bar? By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-11-2005 New Record for Chutzpah By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-09-2005 The cab-rank rule By Walter Olson, 07-07-2005 The Shoe is on the Other Foot By Martin F Grace, 06-27-2005 Only $500K damages? Take a hike By Walter Olson, 06-20-2005 Securities Class Actions Score Big Payday for Lawyers By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-17-2005 How securities lawyers get clients By Walter Olson, 06-10-2005 Contingent-fee tax collection, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-23-2005 Fee objectors By Walter Olson, 05-11-2005 Kentucky fen-phen settlement By Walter Olson, 05-10-2005 Lawyer discipline and professional sanctions By Walter Olson, 04-10-2005 From the archives: forum-shopping punished By Walter Olson, 04-04-2005 W.V.: lawyers reap $3.7M from state's Oxycontin settlement By Walter Olson, 04-01-2005 $922/hour for Teflon-spill lawyers? By Walter Olson, 03-22-2005 Car dealerships targeted By Walter Olson, 03-21-2005 Our masthead's loss, the country's gain By Walter Olson, 03-16-2005 Silicosis doctors testify V By Ted Frank, 03-16-2005 Jumping into contingent-fee work By Walter Olson, 03-14-2005 Fen-Phen Follies By James R. Copland, 03-01-2005 Poultry in motion By Walter Olson, 02-22-2005 New legal ethics blog By Walter Olson, 02-21-2005 "Voir Dire: When to Strike, When Not" By Ted Frank, 02-15-2005 "A Well-Oiled Machine" By Walter Olson, 02-15-2005 Supremes: contingent fees taxable By James R. Copland, 01-31-2005 "Demonizing for Dollars" By Walter Olson, 12-29-2004 Fen-phen food fight By Walter Olson, 12-16-2004 Circling the wagons By Walter Olson, 12-08-2004 Lawyer jailed for coaching perjury By Walter Olson, 11-23-2004 FTC and the professions By Walter Olson, 11-11-2004 Insurance broker scandals: Calif. to hire Lerach By Walter Olson, 11-01-2004 Professor Brickman: Good, rare decision to question 9/11 fund fees By James R. Copland, 10-12-2004 Beldar on firing contingency lawyers By Walter Olson, 10-05-2004 Dangers of firing your lawyer By Walter Olson, 09-29-2004 Upcoming AEI seminar on contingent fees By Walter Olson, 09-21-2004 Law firm competes on price, cont'd By Walter Olson, 09-17-2004 (Figures not adjusted for inflation.) By Ted Frank, 09-10-2004 Dowd's referral fee By Walter Olson, 09-06-2004 Public contingency fees and environmental claims By Walter Olson, 09-05-2004 Seattle federal court cuts fees By Ted Frank, 09-03-2004 NY Times on referral-fee case By Walter Olson, 08-31-2004 "Making Lawyers Compete" By Walter Olson, 08-31-2004 Richard Painter's response, guest blogger By James R. Copland, 08-24-2004 Professor Brickman responds By James R. Copland, 08-20-2004 Calif. insurance dept. hires lawyer on contingency By Walter Olson, 08-20-2004 Europe going our way? By Walter Olson, 08-19-2004 Fees and markets: Prof. Painter responds By James R. Copland, 08-18-2004 Featured Discussion underway now! By James R. Copland, 08-17-2004 Welcome Kim DuToit readers By Walter Olson, 08-12-2004 New Featured Discussion next week on contingency fee reform! By James R. Copland, 08-11-2004 Illinois upholds six-digit "referral fee" By Ted Frank, 08-09-2004 Stop the presses: p/i law firm competes on price By Walter Olson, 08-09-2004 O'Connell: time for fee reform By Walter Olson, 08-03-2004 Our editor on the Democratic Convention -- and Fred Baron spouts off By James R. Copland, 07-30-2004 Rebuked asbestos judge joins asbestos advisory firm By James R. Copland, 07-30-2004 Edwards's cerebral palsy cases: a good perspective By James R. Copland, 07-16-2004 Spitzer and excessive compensation By Walter Olson, 07-16-2004 Wall Street Journal highlights asbestos bankruptcy scams By James R. Copland, 06-03-2004 Update: Ness Motley and James Down By Ted Frank, 05-19-2004 "Plaintiffs' Lawyers Seek $107M in Lucent Case Fees" By Ted Frank, 05-16-2004 Morales: sealed papers could show tobacco-suit misconduct By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 Alabama jury to Exxon Mobil: pay the state $11.9 billion By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 Larry Schonbrun profile By Ted Frank, 05-14-2004 FTC commissioner on class actions By Ted Frank, 05-13-2004
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