Sentence examples for extracting settlements from inspiring English sources

Indeed, extracting settlements is one of the points of building a fearsome reputation through a few wins in court.

We therefore predict that activists with a recent track record of initiating proxy fights, or extracting settlements from targets, are more successful in future campaigns.

It's hard to square these opinions with the broader concern that class actions are a tool for extracting settlements and fees from companies regardless of merit.

Any finding against the commission could limit its scope for extracting settlements in the future.

Targeted businesses often contest the results or complain about "bounty hunter tactics" aimed at extracting settlement money through lawsuits.

Led by Mr. Monteverde, Faruqi & Faruqi has used the reforms to file complaints — and extract settlements — from corporations by suing them over pay-related matters.

"The Attorney General wanted to stop cases that are really just brought to extract settlements," says Deputy Attorney General Edward Weil.

Trolls can buy technology patents for as little as a dollar, then use the patents to extract settlements from well-funded companies.

And given that this firm has made more than 150 notices of violation in the past two years, there is no shortage of opportunities to extract settlements from unsuspecting companies who probably had no idea they were even violating these regulations to begin with.

Or to extract settlements from little guys with the threat of astronomical legal costs.

Gen. Andrew Cuomo and the SEC extracted settlements worth more than $50 billion from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and other institutions over their sales of auction-rate securities.