Word: kreindler
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...analysis. Average compensation for cases settled without a lawsuit was $415,000. The biggest aviation payout in history followed the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Settlements ranged all over the spectrum, with a couple dozen exceeding $10 million, according to Manhattan attorney Lee Kreindler, who acted as lead counsel. Dividing the total $500 million payout over the 270 victims yields an average award of $1.85 million. However, the families had to hand about a third of their awards to their lawyers, and they waited seven to eight years to see any money...
...analysis. Average compensation for cases settled without a lawsuit was $415,000. The biggest aviation payout in history followed the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Settlements ranged all over the spectrum, with a couple dozen exceeding $10 million, according to Manhattan attorney Lee Kreindler, who acted as lead counsel. Dividing the total $500 million payout over the 270 victims yields an average award of $1.85 million. However, the families had to hand about a third of their awards to their lawyers, and they waited seven to eight years to see any money...
...attributed to trial lawyer revenge, group officials tell TIME. A New York-based law firm that represents families of airplane crash victims withdrew a $10,000 pledge to the Aviation Consumer Action Project, a Nader creation, despite Nader?s lack of direct involvement in the group. Says Lee Kreindler, one of the law firm's name partners, "We don?t want to do anything to advance Nader or anything he?s associated with. There are enough demagogues out there...