In the News Today – October 5, 2018
“Meritless” Lawsuits Target “Highly Innovative Businesses,” Report Finds: Professors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Tilburg University, respectively, released a report that found that “frivolous lawsuits tended to focus on highly innovative businesses,” and “cost the average company in this group $1.1 million a year, or about 4 percent of annual profit gains.” (Chicago Booth Review)
Firm Owned By Now-Disbarred Class Action Lawyer to Pay $23.5 Million to Former Clients: The Cincinnati law firm owned by now-disbarred lawyer Stan Chesley will pay $23.5 million to former clients as part of a four-year legal battle in which Chesley’s firm is alleged to have taken millions more in fees than it should have in a class action lawsuit. A legal action against Chesley himself will continue despite this agreement with the firm. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
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