For an illuminating look at improper fee sharing arrangements at plaintiffs’ firms, check out Edward Siedle’s commentary in Forbes.
An offer of $800,000 up front and 10% of any class action legal fees: That’s what law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach proposed paying me in July 2003 to serve as its Marketing Director….
…After working for the Securities and Exchange Commission, I’d spent two decades advising pension funds on investigating financial wrongdoing among money managers and had connections to the union members, cops, firefighters and various others who oversee such funds. Milberg Weiss’ offer had obvious financial appeal. However, I wasn’t about to risk getting involved in criminal activity, regardless of the monetary incentive.
The practices described by Mr. Siedle are all too common among plaintiffs firms. Additional documented examples of such unethical arrangements will be forthcoming on this blawg in the near future.
Filed under: Law & Politics, Opinion, fee splitting, Milberg, pay-to-play, pension funds
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