Civil Rights
Jun. 28, 2008
Class Action Fraud Takes the 'Class' Out of the Legal Profession
Firms like Milberg that have so profited from the justice system need to be leaders of the bar in the area of professionalism.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
Class actions were designed as procedural vehicles of social justice - they protect the rights of the little guy or gal from being taken advantage of by what Bill Lerach called "the dishonorable and despicable greed" of corporate America. Of course, Lerach is in jail now, serving two years on a massive conspiracy violation involving kickbacks to plaintiffs in class actions. Sadly, large corporations are not the only ones that suffer from dishonorable and despicable greed. Lerach said at ...
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