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Litigation

May 15, 2012

Budget woes, delays hit plaintiffs’ firms

As courtrooms shutter, contingency fee lawyers fear case delays.


By Saul Sugarman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - For a small business or an individual litigant, cuts to courts funding mean one thing: justice delayed is justice denied. But have court funding problems hurt attorneys' business, as well?


Lori E. Andrus, a founding partner of San Francisco plaintiffs' firm Andrus Anderson LLP, says they have. In a medical malpractice suit she's involved in, she learned her case had been ...

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