Comments on: Class action lawyers: give us a live client to replace our dead one https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/class-action-lawyers-give-us-a-live-client-to-replace-our-dead-one/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: JOhn https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/class-action-lawyers-give-us-a-live-client-to-replace-our-dead-one/comment-page-1/#comment-9027 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5357#comment-9027 No snark, but a real question: If the class has been certified, wouldn’t any member of the class’ name be usable?

]]> By: nevins https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/class-action-lawyers-give-us-a-live-client-to-replace-our-dead-one/comment-page-1/#comment-9026 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:53:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5357#comment-9026 “Manuel Hernandez died in 2004, but no one told Stack until 2006.”

Failing to notice that your client had died two years earlier seems like prima facie malpractice. How can they pretend that they were meaninfully representing this fellow if he were dead. Further, would review of any of their legal work during the client’s persistently dead state reveal that they faked any of their legal postings with the court?

]]> By: DAV https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/class-action-lawyers-give-us-a-live-client-to-replace-our-dead-one/comment-page-1/#comment-9025 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:27:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5357#comment-9025 I can just see it now: companies being required to keep a list of potential parties they may have “wronged” that would be made available to any attorney seeking some extra revenue. The list, of course, should also include those who think the list was deliberately shortened to be evasive.

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