bans<\/a> non-attorneys from directly soliciting or procuring clients to sign up for lawsuits. The practice, known as capping, was outlawed over concerns it allows law firms to exploit victims in pursuit of hefty payouts.<\/p>\n\u201cAll of the allegations, if accurate, show patently improper conduct by lawyers that calls into question the representation of thousands of Plaintiffs in this case,\u201d Paul Chan, an attorney representing the landfill, wrote in a July 24 motion.<\/p>\n
DTLA has denied all wrongdoing and previously said the claims of attorney misconduct come from \u201ca competing law firm attempting to use the press and the State Bar to eliminate competition in the same litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morrow told the judge Thursday that he didn\u2019t believe his clients\u2019 cases should be scrutinized solely because of the allegations dogging his firm.<\/p>\n
\u201cSingling them out for something they had nothing to do with \u2014 alleged misconduct on the part of my firm or recruiters \u2014 is I think just patently unfair,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Attorneys for the landfill say they want more information on how the residents represented by DTLA joined the case. They have requested a judge\u2019s permission to conduct extra vetting on DTLA clients and serve subpoenas on the alleged recruiter as well as a partner at the firm.<\/p>\n
\u201cMajor issues of unlawful conduct in this case have been repeatedly raised and explored by California\u2019s largest newspaper,\u201d Chan wrote. \u201cThey must be explored through discovery to protect the integrity of these proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frimpong appeared unconvinced that small bits of cash, which some residents said they received in exchange to sue, were enough to warrant a special vetting process for DTLA clients. Lawsuits always have a financial incentive, she argued, and it\u2019s the defense\u2019s job to treat all the claims with a healthy amount of skepticism.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would that be the case that someone who got a gift card is more likely to falsify than someone who thinks \u2018I\u2019m going to get $6,000 at the end of this?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown LA Law Group, a law firm facing multiple state and local investigations, says it plans to bow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9574,168242,1052,79019,1436,8863,8533,69933,6858,48,52,51,168243,16797,1846,10803,47,50,49,288,1791],"class_list":["post-421248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-allegation","tag-andrew-morrow","tag-attorney","tag-california-court","tag-case","tag-claim","tag-client","tag-downtown-la-law-group","tag-dtla","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-landfill-client","tag-law-firm","tag-lawsuit","tag-litigation","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-resident","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}