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  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.

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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.

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  Usual Suspects: Lawyers used to getting their way in MDL process to lead opioid litigation

  By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 @ 9:00am

  CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - There will be a lot of familiar faces in U.S. District Judge Dan Polster’s courtroom in Cleveland on Jan. 31, when lawyers gather for a hearing on multidistrict litigation against the nation’s opioid manufacturers and distributors.

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• Rand's asbestos report shows lucrative outcome for lawyer trust fund managers

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 @ 4:18am

  Weitz Giants of asbestos litigation hold half the power in seven trust funds that paid $2.4 billion in claims in 2008, according to tables in a new Rand Corporation report.

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