Government Accountability & Oversight
After initial revelations raised tax, ethical questions, charitable foundation lists ‘contingency fee’ tort firm as both gift recipient and “highest compensated independent contractor” for nearly $5 million just in 2020 Is the total from a single pass-through now $7.6 million, or a mere $5.2 million for first four years of suits? ‘What did these politicians […]
Within hours of Energy Policy Advocates filing suit against the Minnesota Office of Attorney General this morning (noted by Government Accountability & Oversight here), in part over a missing contract hiring an outside law firm to sue energy companies for climate change, the Minnesota Office of Management and Budget provided the group with the contract in […]
CLW has long wondered about the utter absence of media curiosity into the ethical and fiduciary implication of public officials providing potentially, spectacularly lucrative ‘contingency fee’ agreements to a law firm already being paid to file the wave of “climate nuisance”, now “failure to warn” lawsuits sweeping progressive jurisdictions across the land. The rationale behind allowing what are […]
CLW sees this story posted today, about the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office bringing the noted “contingency fee” law firm Sher Edling on board its climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil. A few days earlier, in Energy Policy Advocates v. Healey, a Suffolk County Superior Court ordered the MA AG to answer interrogatories seeking details of the emails […]
Add the District of Columbia to the jurisdictions that will not release contracts for filing ‘contingency fee’ climate lawsuits which— the public record provides more than ample reason to conclude— are already being privately financed. As GAO’s request makes clear in this instance, there’s not only no good reason for this but it runs contrary […]