As PointofLaw.com, the San Francisco-based The Recorder and other sources reported yesterday, San Diego-based plaintiffs’ class action guru William Lerach will plead guilty and be sentenced to 1 to 2 years in prison and pay $8 million in fines for arranging undisclosed payments to certain Rule 23 plaintiffs in securities-related lawsuits. The plea will be entered in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Los Angeles). District Judge John Walter must agree to the sentencing range. More here, including the information, plea agreement and DOJ press release at WSJ’s Law Blog.
WAC?’s gratuitous take. All of our clients and most of the lawyers in Hull McGuire PC never liked the class action bar much–but that’s not the point. Lerach and his team at his firms were creative, aggressive and generally good craftsmen. They were good at what they did–i.e., a new kind of economic terrorism aimed at corporations via research,