Earlier this year we wrote about how a long-running dispute among trial lawyers was blocking payment from a $2.35 billion fund to tens of thousands of women injured by Dow Corning Corporation's silicone breast implants ["Bad Bet," February]. Geoffrey White, a Nevada trial lawyer, declined to drop the last remaining challenge to the plan by 48 of his clients until he was reimbursed about $400,000 for out-of-pocket litigation expenses-on top of any fees he will earn from the Dow Corning settlement.
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