Lawyers Look to Oust 'Serial Objectors' in T-Mobile Settlement: The Morning Minute
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January 18, 2023 at 06:00 AM
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SERIAL CHEATERS? - Plaintiffs lawyers want to strike two objections to a $350 million data breach settlement with T-Mobile, calling the lawyers behind the filings "notorious serial objectors," Law.com's Amanda Bronstad reports. The motions, filed this week, come ahead of a Jan. 20 final approval hearing of the settlement, which provides compensation to a class of 76.6 million T-Mobile customers whose personal information was compromised in a 2021 cyberattack. Plaintiffs lawyers said that discovery this month revealed that one of the objectors, Cassie Hampe, who lives in Tyler, Texas, is the sister-in-law of Christopher Bandas of the Bandas Law Firm in Corpus Christi, Texas. "The Bandas Firm is perhaps the most disreputable and notorious serious objector in the country," they asserted in a Jan. 10 motion to strike Hampe's objection.
ALSPs IN VR -  In the past, where law firms have gone, alternative legal service providers have often followed closely behind. And what better environment for a tech-savvy business to thrive in than the metaverse, where some firms have ventured over the past year? But ALSPs aren't rushing into anything, Law.com's Cassandre Coyer reports. As firms' limited interactions with clients in the metaverse have shown, the market for legal services in the virtual space is still small. That doesn't mean, however, that the thought hasn't crossed ALSP leaders' minds. "We are having a lot of conversations about whether it would be creative to have a placement in the metaverse or have an office in the metaverse or something like that, really more as a branding or a marketing or an innovative kind of representation of ourselves, versus actual practical use case at the moment," said Pratik Patel, co-founder and head of innovation at Elevate.
ON THE RADAR - World Wrestling Entertainment and former CEO Vince McMahon, who recently resigned over sexual assault allegations, were hit with a shareholder derivative lawsuit Saturday in Delaware Court of Chancery. The suit, which is not publicly available, was brought by Christensen & Dougherty on behalf of Carol Casale and Chrystal Lavalle. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 2023-0039, Carol Casale v. Vincent K. McMahon. Stay up on the latest deals and litigation with the new Law.com Radar.Â
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