Investors whom indicted class-action law firm Milberg Weiss paid to sue some of America's biggest companies were willing patsies who snapped up stocks the firm targeted as ripe for a fall, according to an attorney who worked with the firm. Milberg, in hot water with federal authorities for allegedly paying an investor $2.4 million to act as a plaintiff in dozens of lawsuits, actively coordinated its efforts to invest in companies that were likely to have a major stock-price decline. When these companies reported an operational or financial decline, this allowed Milberg to have a willing plaintiff for an initial...