Sentence examples for lucrative settlement from inspiring English sources

All that plaintiffs need is to survive the motion to dismiss: in many instances, that will lead to a lucrative settlement.

Mr. Hardin, the lawyer for Ms. Osteen, said the lawsuit appeared on the surface to be an effort by Ms. Brown to win a lucrative settlement from wealthy celebrities.

Wilpon and Katz have steadfastly insisted that they were innocent victims of Madoff's fraud, betrayed by a longtime friend, and have accused the trustee of trying to ruin their reputations with fabricated evidence in an effort to strong-arm a lucrative settlement from them.

While Elliott is still holding out for a more lucrative settlement with the nation over its defaulted bonds, Fintech sided with Argentina in 2005, a move that some bondholders felt undermined efforts to force the country to pay what it owed.

But with an expert supporting their claims, plaintiffs can often extract a lucrative settlement simply by surviving defense motions to dismiss.

"And in either instance," Judge Merryday continued, "the attorney's fee (payable from the "common fund") undoubtedly will soar astronomically". Those lawyers' hopes to parlay such a large potential damage award into a quick but still lucrative settlement would thud spectacularly if their class representatives accept BLP's offer.

In the past, patents were often bought by specialist patent firms from start-ups that had failed, and used in suits against major technology companies to reach lucrative settlements or win big paydays in court.

If it was extended to drug cartels or the mafia, we could forego the messy and dangerous business of bringing hitmen, capos, and mob bosses to trial, in favor of reaching lucrative settlements with the organizations they work for.

Banks's novel was based on a 1989 bus crash in Alton, Texas, that claimed the lives of 21 children and resulted in a series of lucrative settlements that fractured the community.

A third of current inquiries to lawyers by those deciding to break the knot, she claims, are linked to the credit crunch.One explanation is that the defecting spouses of high earners are getting out before the crunch reduces the potential for lucrative settlements.

"One can easily foresee a spate of 'shakedown' or vengeance lawsuits brought by plaintiffs whose motivation is not so much to discover how they contracted H.I.V. as to force lucrative settlements or embarrass a former sexual partner by exposing that person's sexual history".