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Litigation

May 4, 2010

Requests to Lead Toyota Suits Surge

As Friday's deadline approached for positions on the steering committee guiding the consolidated litigation stemming from Toyota crashes, plaintiffs' lawyers' applications for the coveted slot were rolling in fast and furious.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - As Friday's deadline approached for positions on the steering committee guiding the consolidated litigation stemming from Toyota crashes, plaintiffs' lawyers' applications for the coveted slot were rolling in fast and furious.

At stake is a leading role in litigating what could be the biggest mass tort in U.S. history - the fallout from the sudden unintended...

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