Sentence examples for lucrative settlements from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

Armed with such patents, lawsuit specialists can target tech giants and secure huge judgements in court, or force lucrative settlements.

In a well-known broadside, originally funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce but quickly transplanted in academic, policy, and public opinion circles, Jonathan Drimmer characterized human rights remedy efforts as "the plaintiffs bar go[ing] international" in "an effort to inflict maximum punishment on companies" and "force them into lucrative settlements".

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.

Could a lucrative settlement be behind her change of heart?