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Vanderbilt law professor Brian Fitzpatrick’s year-old paper “The End of Objector Blackmail” has received a fair amount of attention from variouslawyer-bloggers and lawyer-tweeters in the last week. The chatter stems from the attention he draws to a practice known as quick-pay provisions – provisions to pay plaintiffs’ counsel immediately when settling a case, even before the class has received any relief.
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