In the chaos of last-minute settlement negotiations in the hallway of a Los Angeles courtroom, plaintiffs attorney C. Michael Alder says, he made a key mistake: He failed to ask his client to approve the deal.
Lawyers for the defendant insist it wasn’t a mistake. They say Alder made up that story because he wanted out of the $350,000 settlement after learning that jurors had been ready to award his client $9.4 million.
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