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Years of legal bills before chance to defend self: 'Just the way' U.S. legal system is, PFAS judge says

By John O'Brien | Thursday, Sep 10, 2020 @ 5:50am

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Legal Newsline) – It’s just a fact of life that companies can get tangled up in expensive litigation that goes on for years before they can start defending themselves.
Big plaintiffs firms circle government clients to score PFAS litigation contracts

By John O'Brien | Thursday, Sep 3, 2020 @ 6:41am

MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – A memo from Miami-Dade County shows that the nation’s prominent plaintiffs firms are competing with and aligning to each other in the hopes of grabbing the most important clients – local governments.
While they wait on opioid jackpot, plaintiffs firms take federal loans during pandemic

By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Jul 8, 2020 @ 9:33am

Law firms leading multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry have borrowed as much as $102 million under the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to preserve jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The law firms said the loans were needed to pay some 3,000 employees.
Michigan hires private lawyers also pushing opioid cases for PFAS lawsuit

By John O'Brien | Wednesday, Oct 23, 2019 @ 7:54am

LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – Michigan’s Dana Nessel has become the latest state attorney general to hire private lawyers to file a lawsuit over chemicals known as PFAS, setting up a tiered system to pay their contingency fee.