Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to be a diplomat with a PhD. In March, he'll earn his master's degree from Northeastern. And he's told his lawyers that a small out-of-court settlement isn't enough...
According to Abramian's lawyers, the University made no settlement offer above $15,000 during the trial--none of which would have gone to Abramian, since $17,000 of any settlement would go to the lawyer who did pre-trial work on the case...
Doherty says Harvard's confidence may have been one reason why the University did not make larger settlement offers throughout the trial...
...attorneys, known as the Castano group, elbowed their way into separate ongoing negotiations between the cigarette companies and state attorneys general, who had their own lawsuits going against the tobacco firms. How did these lawyers manage to get involved? Largely because of Hugh's presence, others in the settlement talks said. "We felt we had to keep [the Castano lawyers] because of Rodham" and his famous kin, said one of the attorneys representing the states. Hugh helped arrange some White House meetings for some of the negotiators with deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey and others. And the Castano group...
...Hugh stands to do well if the Castano group prevails in suits the lawyers have filed on behalf of five cities against the firearms industry--the new frontier of class-action litigation. Sources tell TIME that Hugh was one of several lawyers who began negotiating a possible settlement with a gun-industry trade group earlier this year. Robert Ricker, former head of the group, said Hugh helped arrange a White House meeting in early May with Lindsey, domestic-policy adviser Bruce Reed and others. "He took me aside once and told me he'd...filled [the Clintons...