In 1998, the class action plaintiffs’ firm Milberg Weiss filed sued Computer Associates for violating the federal securities laws by lying about its revenues in order to increase its stock price. In a perfectly unremarkable development, it was appointed co-lead counsel of the consolidated class. (Various firms had filed a total of eleven complaints.)
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What Does Circle of Greed Tell Us About Plaintiffs’ Thinking?
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On Tuesday, I provided a brief review of the Lerach biography Circle of Greed. Today, I want to focus on what some of the stories about Lerach can reveal about the psychology of the class-action plaintiffs’ lawyer.
I freely concede that this is about as unscientific an inquiry as one can make. For better…