Lee v. Thompson

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This is the second appeal to this Court’of this case involving the 2001 settlement of thirteen diet-drug claims for approximately $32 million. Herbert Lee Jr., the attorney who handled the settlement, agreed that six percent of the gross settlement would be used to pay for “common benefit” discovery materials generated in the federal multi-district litigation (MDL) of diet-drug claims. At the settlement, Lee billed the MDL fee to the plaintiffs. After the settlement, the MDL court ordered a partial refund of the MDL fee.

¶ 2. Two of the plaintiffs, Gloria…