id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_b6lm5bdl4vgsfbnub6h44zfk2a Lester Brickman Anatomy of a Madison County (Illinois) Class Action: A Study of Pathology 2002.0 60 .pdf application/pdf 35490 2124 62 who really believes that Ness Motley accepted a class action settlement in which payment of its fee the following litigation: plaintiff, seeking to institute a commercial litigation against a major international company, interviewed a number of law firms and selected one on the basis of that firm's reputation and its claimed ability to file the action in a small-county state court in one of the magnet states that often provided by courts in class actions, by aggregating hundreds and even thousands of individual cases into a single proceeding and then settling those claims en masse. its blessing to the enforcement of 37,100 individual fee contracts, most of them providing for a 40 percent contingency fee, totaling $88.8 million in attorneys' fees, and reversing the district court's treatment of the case as, in effect, a class action. list to serve as named plaintiffs, Ness Motley filed a class action complaint in Madison County on ./cache/work_b6lm5bdl4vgsfbnub6h44zfk2a.pdf ./txt/work_b6lm5bdl4vgsfbnub6h44zfk2a.txt