Seeger Weiss – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:32:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Fee scrimmage in NFL concussion settlement https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/04/fee-scrimmage-nfl-concussion-settlement/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:15:17 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=63915 “The $1 billion NFL concussion settlement — nearly six years in the making yet still to deliver a penny to former players and their families for brain injuries stemming from football — is revealing the underbelly of the legal system to former players and their families. … Two dozen wives of former players recently sent […]

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]]> “The $1 billion NFL concussion settlement — nearly six years in the making yet still to deliver a penny to former players and their families for brain injuries stemming from football — is revealing the underbelly of the legal system to former players and their families. … Two dozen wives of former players recently sent a plea to the judge overseeing the case, asking her to address concerns that legal fees will be cutting heavily into money that was supposed to go their families. They cited lawyers charging ‘exorbitant’ retainer fees to players and their families despite the same lawyers being eligible to collect from a $112.5 million fund set aside to pay attorneys who worked on the case.” [ESPN]

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]]> Lawyer ads that look like VA hospital sites https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/lawyer-ads-that-look-like-va-hospital-sites/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/lawyer-ads-that-look-like-va-hospital-sites/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:16:22 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16759 The sleaziest asbestos-suit-marketing practice yet? You decide. In what is unfortunately not an April Fool’s joke, Roger Parloff at Fortune exposes a network of client recruitment sites that would fool many casual visitors into thinking they are sponsored by the federal government’s Veteran’s Administration, under headings like “VA Medical Center Palo Alto” and corresponding domain […]

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]]> VACenterAsbestosAd2The sleaziest asbestos-suit-marketing practice yet? You decide. In what is unfortunately not an April Fool’s joke, Roger Parloff at Fortune exposes a network of client recruitment sites that would fool many casual visitors into thinking they are sponsored by the federal government’s Veteran’s Administration, under headings like “VA Medical Center Palo Alto” and corresponding domain names. A founding partner of well-known New York plaintiff’s firm Seeger Weiss expressed regret about his firm’s listing as a sponsor of the site. The full story is here (& welcome Legal Blog Watch readers).

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