Still people remain suspicious of him: as too clever by half, a slick talking lawyer who got rich winning cases for poor people and taking a big hunk of the victory settlements for himself.
Black can claim one recent legal victory, a settlement of a libel action he launched against Hollinger and the authors of an internal report that accused him of operating a "corporate kleptocracy".
"In a major victory, our settlement has the potential to result in Apple paying hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers to compensate them for paying unlawfully inflated E-book prices".
Michael J. Dayton, editor of The North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, which frequently published summaries of Mr. Edwards's trial victories and settlements, based on information his firms provided, said his stature was uncontested.
In at least eight accounting disputes in the last eight years, owners have won an estimated $500 million in trial victories and settlements.
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They pursued strategies that seemed designed to produce neither a victory nor a settlement, only what Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers but once a passionate supporter of American intervention, called "the stalemate machine".
While both retired players and N.F.L. executives claimed victory over the settlement, which will cover future expenses related to on-the-job brain damage, invisible behind them was the legion of young players who have long been endangered by the league's actions — those same actions that the settlement effectively absolved.
Despite seeking only $60,000 for himself and his client rather than $2.7 million -- a figure he originally floated -- Ms. Hornstine's attorney described as a victory last week's settlement in the case that pitted the high school senior against the Moorestown Board of Educatio, mainly because an earlier Federal court ruling confirmed Ms. Hornstine's status as the school's sole valedictorian.
With Standard Chartered settlement, a victory for a new regulator.
