HLLI represents objectors challenging a cy pres settlement that pays $0 to the class but $62 million for attorneys' fees and to third-party organizations, many of which have pre-existing relationships with Google or the attorneys.
Reuters quoted HLLI co-founder Ted Frank in an article about the recent Tesla ruling that CEO Elon Musk must surrender stock options worth more than $50 billion.
Reuters covered HLLI challenging forum shopping tactics that could result in plaintiffs' lawyers getting $8 million in undeserved legal fees.
The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute represents four intervenors who are challenging plaintiffs’ counsel’s forum shopping tactics in settling a nationwide class action in a state court likely to award more fees out of class recovery than attorneys would get in federal court, where the action was first filed.
HLLI represents an objector challenging a proposed settlement where class counsel seeks an outsized percentage of the settlement amount for themselves and which caps class members claims at pennies on the dollar.
The New York Post highlighted the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute's unique legal strategy for possibly suing organizations who engaged in traffic-blocking protests.
Jason Riley wrote about the possibility of suing anti-Israel traffic-blocking protestors, as HLLI co-founder Ted Frank suggested.
Director of Litigation Ted Frank appeared on the Jason Rantz Show to discuss a potential legal action against organized activists blocking major highways like Seattle’s I-5, Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, and New York’s Holland Tunnel.
HLLI advocated to successfully stop $10.5 million in class action funds in the case Hawes v. Macy’s, Inc. from being routed, through settlement cy pres, to a left-wing nonprofit advocacy group with no direct interest in the case. Case No. 1:17-cv-754 (S.D. Ohio 2023).
Holyoak co-founded HLLI with Theodore H. Frank in 2019. She previously served as senior counsel with the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), now part of HLLI. At HLLI, Holyoak helped return hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers and shareholders.
