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Mich. Firm Wins Partial Dismissal In $36M Fee Fight

Law360, New York (November 06, 2009) -- A federal judge has dismissed large swaths of a sealed lawsuit brought by beneficiaries of the Michigan-based Iron Workers Local 25 Pension Fund that seeks, among other things, to dissolve a fee agreement between the fund and law firm Sullivan Ward Asher & Patton PC worth $36 million.

Judge Stephen J. Murphy III's order, issued Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, ruled that plaintiffs George Henry Young, Harvey Weglarz and William Chakur...

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