We can’t decide which of the lawyers below had a more disappointing day. … (Okay, we can, but it was a close contest.)
- In our favorite piece of Internets reading today, a columnist in Southern California informs us of a Los Angeles Superior Court class action with a pretty unique pay scheme. Apparently, this mediated settlement netted class members $10 gift cards to shop at the clothing-store chain that was sued. So the plaintiff lawyer’s mediated $125,000 fee has to be paid out in the form of 12,500 $10 gift cards. (You can probably guess how the name plaintiff is getting paid, too … ) [Metropolitan News-Enterprise]
- And then the San Jose Mercury News is reporting that State Bar officials have issued a public reproval against Peter Waite, a homicide prosecutor accused of hiding expert testimony from a defense lawyer in the sanity phase of a 1999 trial. (According to the Merc, the defense lawyer found out on his own, in enough time to include the testimony in the trial anyway.) [San Jose Mercury News, and we’ll throw in Waite's State Bar listing for good measure]
— Pam Smith
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