Legal Opinion
In Re Horizon/CMS Healthcare Corp. Securities Litigation
District Court, D. New Mexico
Decided March 27, 1998No. Civ 96-442 BB/LCSPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER ALLOCATING ATTORNEYS’ FEES
BLACK, District Judge.
Justice William Brennan once noted that disputes over attorneys’ fees are “one of the least socially productive types of litigation imaginable.” Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 442, 103 S.Ct. 1933, 76 L.Ed.2d 40 (1983) (Brennan, J., dissenting). Unfortunately, after obtaining a good settlement for the shareholders, the present litigation has degenerated into the type of public spectacle which has fueled the perception that the practice of law is no longer a learned profession but rather just another lucrative…
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