How much is a lawyer worth? Not as much as they think, say advocates of lawsuit reform. Anything they can get, say people such as Billy Davis of Nowata. Legislation in the state House of Representatives would sharply reduce the share of settlements and jury awards that plaintiffs’ attorneys could claim as fees. The bill, a legislative referendum that would bypass Gov. Brad Henry and go directly to voters, is the first shot in an all-out assault by Republicans and business interests on the trial lawyers who are the bane of employers and insurers — and the chief financial support of Democrats. “Any time a lawyer has a 50 percent stake in a case, you have to wonder whose case it really is,” said Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa, the author of the referendum, House Bill 1602. Davis sees things differently. “Whatever the lawyers get, they deserve,” he said.
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