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Litigation

Apr. 19, 2012

Judge fields complaints about securities firm's expenses

The San Diego law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has found itself in increasingly hot water with a federal judge who is examining why it's lawyers requested inflated expenses as part of a class-action settlement.


By Gabe Friedman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The plaintiffs securities firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has found itself in increasingly hot water with a federal judge who is accusing the firm of submitting inflated expenses as part of a class-action settlement.


Judge Justin Quackenbush of the Eastern District of Washington is considering sanctions or disciplinary actions over $90,000 in expenses the firm submitted for an in-house inve...

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