Sure enough, Mr. Hare's unhappy lovers embody England's latter-day classconflicts: Tom (Brian Mani) is a nouveau-riche Thatcherite entrepreneur with a boorish streak, while Kyra (Greta Wohlrabe) is a chastened idealist who has renounced her upper-middle-class background to teach poor children.
The practice is of dubious legal provenance and can exacerbate the already serious conflicts between class-action lawyers and their ostensible clients.
The saga illustrates the conflicts inherent in any class action, where lawyers can negotiate a settlement that is good for them, good for the defendants, but not necessarily good for the clients.
Some of the largest class action firms in the country have confided to me that rarely are the referral fees and related conflicts of interest involving fund counsel disclosed to the Boards.
Some of the largest class-action firms in the country have confided to me that rarely are the referral fees and related conflicts of interest involving fund counsel disclosed to the boards.