When the blog receives a case that is a bit off-center,
involving odd facts or a different area of law, we grab it as our
weekly writing assignment. If it's a criminal matter, our claim
is premised on our stint as a prosecutor. Today's case is a
securities class action, permitting us to relive our days fending
off shareholders' actions in the 1980s. Most of those actions
were filed by a very, very famous, nay, infamous, plaintiff lawyer
in SoCal who ended up in the hoosegow. Every time a company's
stock price dropped, it seemed like this guy had a buddy who owned
a couple of shares. His firm would tap a couple of computer keys
and produce a class action complaint in minutes. The whole thing
reeked of sleaze.
