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Big plaintiffs firms circle government clients to score PFAS litigation contracts

By John O'Brien | 5 years ago

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 | 5 years ago

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.