This morning I spent several hours in a courtroom in the Federal Courthouse (Richard Russell Building) trying to stop a railroad train. My clients were members of a class action suit involving claims against credit reporting companies who were alleged to have defrauded people concerning a credit score program. After the judge had gutted the case for the plaintiffs back in August of last year, the lawyers for the name plaintiffs and the defendants got together and worked a deal in which the defendants agreed to pay the plaintiff's lawyers and give the rest of the plaintiffs three months free credit reports from the company they had sued.
I tried to get the judge to understand how inequitable it was to settle the case and give the plaintiff's attorneys the big payoff. They tried to justify their fees ($4.1 million) by saying how much they had done for the plaintiffs. Even the judge got into it.
I hate the fact that people think of lawyers as shysters and give us so much grief for doing what we do. This whole scenario is just more fuel for the fire. Can't they see that?
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