An aerial photo shows floating barriers known as booms trying to stop further incursion into the Wetlands Talbert Marsh after an oil spill in Huntington Beach, California, on Oct. 4, 2021. A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled to contain the crude before it spread further into protected wetlands. Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP
Three prominent plaintiffs firms have banded together to seek control of the proposed class actions filed over the Orange County oil spill.
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Aitken Aitken Cohn; and Bentley & More want their cases combined and their firms appointed interim co-lead counsel for five proposed classes, the first major power grab in a flurry of lawsuits that include lawyers across California and beyond.
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