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Politically generous lawyers poised to take billions from opioid settlement

By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020 @ 1:07pm

CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Their request for some $3 billion in fees has generated fierce resistance from state attorneys general and defendants, but don’t worry about the financial states of private lawyers who represent thousands of municipal plaintiffs in opioid litigation.
Opioid settlement hints at massive windfall for private lawyers who snagged government clients

By Daniel Fisher | Tuesday, Oct 22, 2019 @ 11:36am

CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - It was a stroke of good luck for Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio that U.S. District Judge Dan Polster selected them for the first bellwether trial out of thousands of other cities and counties that are blaming the opioid industry for the nation's addiction crisis.

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