ATTORNEY Steven Donziger’s attempt to upset a settlement between Chevron and the former Patton Boggs law firm in the multibillion-dollar brawl over an Ecuadorean environment award has been decisively rejected by a federal judge.
Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan said the 2014 settlement, in which Patton Boggs agreed to pay $15 million and expressed regret over its role in the litigation, stands. Donziger, he said, has no right to intervene and press his claim Patton breached its professional obligations to him and two representative plaintiffs from the infamous Lago Agrio litigation.
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