Over the last week, I provided a brief review of the new biography of disgraced (but largely successful) class-action plaintiff’s lawyer William Lerach, and a discussion of some of his psychological quirks that one might encounter in some other plaintiffs’ lawyers. Today, I’m closing out my discussion of Circle of Greed by looking at
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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…
Circle of Greed – A Look Into the Mind of the Class-Action Plaintiff’s Lawyer
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I’ve written before about how – the odd beauty contest aside – the plaintiffs’ bar often seems as opaque as the Cold War Kremlin to defense lawyers. Journalists Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon have done their part for class-action glasnost, however, with their new biography of William Lerach, Circle of Greed: The Spectactular Rise …