https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/lerach-sentenced-to-two-years/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/lerach-sentenced-to-two-years/comment-page-1/#comment-10688 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:12:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5855#comment-10688 If these abuses were an industry wide practice, wouldn’t a class action lawsuit against plaintiff’s lawyers, as a group, be the proper remedy?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/lerach-sentenced-to-two-years/comment-page-1/#comment-10687 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:18:02 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5855#comment-10687 If the CEO of a large corporation had done the equivalent, he would be looking at ruin and decades in jail. Lawyer gets wrist slapped and is still richer than Midas.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/02/lerach-sentenced-to-two-years/comment-page-1/#comment-10686 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:04:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5855#comment-10686 This sentence will not deter the illegal conduct, it will generate a signup list. Four lawyers go to jail and all the others engaged in this industrywide practice are allowed to continue business as usual. To see how this works in the real world see www.
stoplegalfiction.org. Unsupervised exercise of fiduciary duties by lawyers paying kickbacks and lying to Courts is bad for the client. This is why cases settle for pennies on a Dollar no matter how many criminal convictions or regulatory findings there are.

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