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...cases get to trial. Some 20% get dismissed. The rest get settled, and the lawyers get way more than the wronged shareholders. Sorry. Lawyers typically get 30% of any award. Last year 168 shareholder suits were settled for $1.3 billion, an average of $7.5 million each, according to Jim Newman, publisher of Securities Class-Action Alert, a newsletter in Upper Saddle River, N.J. So in the average case, a handful of lawyers got roughly $2.3 million to share, leaving $5.2 million to be divvied among, potentially, millions of shareholders...
Many of the suits, though, involve small companies with relatively few shareholders, and many of them never file a claim, leaving more in the pot for those who do. Newman estimates that the average investor who persists will recover 16[cents] on the dollar...
Even here in Beantown, in an Adams house common room straining to hear John Sterling and Michael Kay's call over an Internet feed, temporarily abandoning Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman for the exploits of another New York school, Well's quest for baseball legend shone through...
...regulating the production of chimeras as closer study may demand and not abandoning this avenue of scientific pursuit as the spirit of Newman's patent advises, we raise the very distinct possibility of developing a more universally acceptable (and beneficial) middle ground...
...usually the rule of thumb. In fact, with the charged morality of the chimera issue, it is highly unlikely that any scientist would try to create a species with near-human intellect and even more inconceivable that they could do so with the hopes of monetary profit that Newman has in mind as motivation...