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What Circle of Greed Can Tell Us About Plaintiff Strategies

By The Editors on March 23, 2010
Posted in Lawyers, Settlement, Strategy

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…

What Does Circle of Greed Tell Us About Plaintiffs’ Thinking?

By The Editors on March 18, 2010
Posted in Lawyers

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

By The Editors on March 16, 2010
Posted in Lawyers

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 …

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