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Aug. 13, 2009

Judge Slashes Fee Award to Coughlin Stoia

The federal criminal conviction of former plaintiffs' lawyer Bill Lerach has come back to haunt Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, as a U.S. judge granted barely half the attorney fees his former firm was seeking in a case.

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The federal criminal conviction of former plaintiffs' lawyer Bill Lerach has come back to haunt his former law firm.

A U.S. judge in Minnesota on Tuesday granted barely half the attorneys fees Lerach's former firm, Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, was seeking for its work on behalf of shareholders in a class-action against UnitedHealth Group Inc.

And the judge made clear that Lerach was o...

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