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Two South Florida McDonald’s customers are accusing the fast food giant of forcing them to pay for Quarter Pounders with Cheese when they only wanted plain Quarter Pounders.

No matter the time of year, it is always trial lawyer season in Texas. But one particular type of trial lawyer — the storm chaser — is especially prevalent these days.

Never ones to pass up an opportunity to make a buck off their fellow Texans, storm-chasing lawyers have been swooping into Texas communities after hail storms and hurricanes for a decade, scamming property owners into filing lawsuits that will allow them to skim massive lawyers’ fees off the top.

A former San Antonio lawyer will be spending the next six years of his life in prison after federal investigators alleged that he created fake Texas court rulings to dupe a pair of clients into believing he’d won their case and converted another client’s $2.4 million trust fund for his own personal use.

It sounded like an old school slip-and-fall scam with a modern-day financial twist.

Neighborhood scouts lined up victims willing to fall in potholes or deliberately trip outside of restaurants, bodegas and dry cleaners. Doctors treated patients for broken limbs, busted knees and internal injuries, including some that were fake. Sometimes they performed unnecessary procedures that drove up the potential value of the personal injury lawsuits that followed.

A federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation over the opioid epidemic has ordered lawyers to disclose all third-party financing arrangements in their cases.

The State Bar’s disciplinary committee has sued Austin ADA attorney Omar Rosales again in Travis County District Court, seeking disciplinary action for acting in bad faith in several of the hundreds of federal cases Rosales filed on behalf of a single client in 2015 and 2016.

If the National Football League has its way, sanctions will be issued and a special investigator will be appointed to the NFL’s $1 billion Concussion Settlement program, as the league alleges an independent claims administrator determined that 23 percent of the claims submitted to it were fraudulent.

California officials who are suing large energy companies are telling two contradictory stories while taking part in a targeted effort featuring state attorneys general, private lawyers and Rockefeller money, a Texas judge has found.

‘Only God makes a perfect hip,” trial lawyer Mark Lanier once observed, which must be news to millions of patients who’ve needed a hip replacement. But Mr. Lanier’s specialty is suing over those replacements, and this week he was slapped down for distortions in court.

(Reuters) – Mark Lanier of the Lanier Law Firm is one of the most successful trial lawyers in the country. Trained as a pastor, he has an uncanny rapport with jurors, who have bestowed upon him enormous verdicts: $253 million against Merck in a 2005 Vioxx trial; $6 billion (yes, billion) against Takeda in a 2014 trial over the diabetes drug Actos; $502 million against Johnson & Johnson and DePuy in a 2016 trial over metal-on-metal hip implants.