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What if Contingent Fees Worked in Reverse?

By Paul Karlsgodt

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CBC business columnist Michael Hlinka has this modest proposal for how to prevent class action abuse in Canada: make unsuccessful plaintiffs’ class action attorneys pay the defendant an amount equal to the amount of the contingent fees that they stood to earn if they had won. It’s not an idea that is likely to catch on among policymakers, [...]

Full post as published by ClassActionBlawg on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).

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