Greene contended that settlement enforcement would require a new case be filed against him because Greene had not signed a written settlement agreement and was not physically present in the courtroom with his lawyer when the settlement was read into the court record.
He also reached an "amicable" settlement with the Reyes family, his lawyer, Lyons, said.
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Before they went to authorities with the accusations, the family consulted with two attorneys, including the lawyer who had secured the 1993 settlement.
News Corp. didn't affirm or deny these claims during settlement negotiations with claimants, according to a lawyer for plaintiffs, but in December the company agreed to calculate compensation under the assumption that such actions occurred.
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David Sheehan, the lawyer for the trustee, said the settlement now aligns the goals of the Mets owners and the trustee.
In the aborted settlement talks, the defendants had been represented by a lawyer for the university system.
Owens Corning sued testing labs and at least one lawyer in 1996, but ultimately entered a confidential settlement as part of a larger agreement to pay off asbestos claims.
Transocean lawyer Brad Brian said that last week's settlement was not an admission of gross negligence and that last-minute changes to the well design by BP had the rig's crew "at wits' end" before the disaster.
Kathy Patrick, the lawyer for the institutional investors who negotiated the massive settlement, is behind three new legal filings made in federal courts, including a statement in support of the deal that points out that the vast majority of investors in soured mortgage-backed securities issued by Countrywide Financial through 530 trusts have chosen not to object to the settlement.
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David Grais, a New York lawyer representing smaller investors, filed to intervene in the settlement, arguing it had been negotiated in secret.
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His lawyer, Benjamin Johnson, said he agreed to the settlement.
My sense of things is that Degenhart is a relatively young guy and may not have been represented by a lawyer during the FINRA investigation and the negotiation of the settlement terms.
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It finds lawyers to work on contingency and pays 90% of litigants' other costs, including travel, expert witnesses and local counsel--in exchange for a lawyer-size fee: 30% to 50% of what's left after the lawyer takes his fee, perhaps 33% of a settlement.
According to the sources, after a summer of Lewinsky disclosures, Clinton lawyer Robert Bennett and Jones' legal team began exploring possible settlement terms.
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But after a night of negotiations, Mr Woodford's lawyer told the employment tribunal judge that they had reached a settlement - likely to be worth millions - and that final agreement would depend on ratification by the Olympus board at a meeting on 8 June.
Hallford's lawyer in the Liberty National suit, Stephen Gudac, argues the settlement payment was for "mental anguish "and other not taxable compensation.
His lawyer, Jeff Herman, said Stephens recanted over the possibility of a settlement, but none was ever reached.
On Tuesday night, Mr. Foster's lawyer said an attorney hired by the town called to discuss a potential settlement deal that would include seating Mr. Foster as mayor.
She finally hired a lawyer from a firm specializing in disaster cases who will take 15% of any settlement and 33% if the case goes to court.
Sheridan lawyer Mark Baute has previously said he did not expect an out-of-court settlement.
Yet by the end of October, the university's lawyer had contacted Cordero and, to our surprise, indicated a willingness to consider a settlement.
Similarly, trying to get a lawyer to take your case on a contingency when the public customer got a six-figure settlement (even if only a fraction of what was sought), might prove difficult if not impossible.
Mr Bullock's lawyer, Jill Greenfield, said the compensation or the actual claim value cannot be revealed because the settlement was arrived at in a private hearing.
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Officials from the Antiguan government will make their plea before the WTO's dispute settlement body on Monday to get "final authorisation" to set up the site, Mark Mendel, a lawyer representing the island nation told the BBC.
As an appeals-court lawyer by training, Mr Klein thinks that, when matters of public policy are at stake, a settlement is no substitute for a ruling upheld by the courts.
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