Litigation Finance, Mass Torts, and Turning ‘Clients into Commodities’
“AkinMears is nothing more than a glorified claims processing center, where the numbers are huge, the clients commodities, and the paydays, when they come, stratospheric,” wrote Amir Shenaq in his $4 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against plaintiffs’ firm AkinMears.
Shenaq claims he earned the money by arranging “financing that would allow AkinMears to quietly acquire thousands of cases at a discount.”
ILR President Lisa A. Rickard said the revelations show how “litigation financing perverts the justice system and puts the interests of lawyers and financiers ahead of actual plaintiffs.”
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- Related: “The plaintiffs themselves were traded like pork bellies on a commodities exchange.” (60 Plus Association)