Thornton Law Firm Llp
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Boston, MA 02111
Recent News About Thornton Law Firm Llp
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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing litigation against State Street Bank & Trust ordered Labaton Sucharow and two other plaintiff law firms to hand over more than $14 million in fees they were forced to surrender due to ethical violations in the long-running class action.
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NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge decertified a class action against Allergan after discovering plaintiff lawyers had agreed to split fees even after she had explicitly told them only one law firm should represent the class.In a 26-page decision, U.S.
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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – The future of a prominent class action law firm's fight to reinstate more than $1 million in fees from a controversial settlement is in question.
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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer at the center of the scandal over the $300 million settlement of a State Street securities case told a federal judge in Boston it was “stupid and sloppy” to sign a false application for his firm’s share of $75 million in fees, but he didn’t intend to mislead the court.
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DENVER (Legal Newsline) – A retirement system alleges it purchased artificially inflated stock in a video commerce corporation between 2015 and 2016.
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State Street settlement fiasco has Ark. lawmakers questioning state's role in class actions
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A federal judge unsealed a lengthy report accusing Labaton Sucharow and a Massachusetts law firm of deliberately misleading the court about how it distributed the fees in a $300 million settlement with State Street Bank and Trust Co., including $4.1 million paid to a Houston lawyer who did no work on the case.
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Labaton Sucharow, having failed to get a federal judge to recuse himself, asked him to turn over records of any out-of-court communications with the special master probing allegations that Labaton overcharged its clients and improperly shared part of its $75 million fee.
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An Arkansas pension fund has retained a law firm with expertise in criminal and corporate investigations as arguments over $75 million in class action attorney fees continue in federal court.
