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Dotson v. Bell Atlantic/Verizon

Dotson v. Bell Atlantic/Verizon

We challenged a proposed class action settlement of late fee claims by Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) customers in Maryland.  The original settlement reached with the phone company would have paid $156,000 in relief to the class, but $13 million to the plaintiffs’ lawyers with the firm of Beins, Goldberg & Gleiberman.  We represented objectors to this settlement and the state court rejected the settlement.  As a result of three years of hard-fought litigation by us and other objectors’ counsel, a new settlement  was reached that increased the amount paid to consumers to almost $17 million, while reducing the attorneys’ fees paid to class counsel to $6.1 million.  Michael Quirk, then an attorney with Public Justice, was lead counsel for two objectors to the settlement; Kieron F. Quinn of Quinn, Gordon & Wolf, Chtd. in Baltimore, was lead counsel for ten objectors.  The objectors in this case were also represented by Public Justice Attorney Paul Bland, Baltimore’s Richard Gordon and Martin Wolf, Philip Foard of Towson, Maryland, and Philip Friedman of Washington, D.C.



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