For eight years, billionaire Sam Wyly and his lawyers at Bickel & Brewer campaigned against a $143 million class settlement that Computer Associates International Inc. reached with shareholders in 2003 after a massive accounting scandal.

Their primary targets have been the plaintiffs lawyers who secured the deal, including the infamous Melvyn Weiss, whose firm is now known as Milberg, his co-counsel at Stull, Stull & Brody and the firms now known as Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd. But Wyly’s claims that the plaintiffs firms bungled the case keep missing their mark.

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