https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/04/cook-county-jail-lockdown-settlement/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/04/cook-county-jail-lockdown-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-149058 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:24:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=28729#comment-149058 Hey, plaintiffs’ lawyers have yacht payments too. Don’t hate.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/04/cook-county-jail-lockdown-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-148597 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:54:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=28729#comment-148597 Let’s see…. By my calculations, Cook County spent a total of $1,730,000 on this matter, of which $1,582,144 went to the lawyers (both sides) and $148,000 went to the poor suffering plaintiffs. Sounds like a winner to me!

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