From the article: “Illustrating the value of class actions, Brad Seligman, the California-based lawyer who conceived of and filed the suit 10 years ago, said the average salary for a woman at Wal-Mart was $13,000, about $1,100 less than the average for a man, when the case began. “That’s hugely significant if you’re making $13,000 a year, but not enough to hire a lawyer and bring a case.”
When I first read ‘Illustraing the value of class actions’ I thought the good professor was going to talk about their value to the attorneys who take 1/3 of the pot.
He never mentioned that.
“attorneys who take 1/3 of the pot.”
In class actions I was under the impression that it went well beyond 1/3. In the flight attendants passive inhalation case the lawyers made millions and the attendants got a chest x-ray yearly.