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Re: antitrust class actions no poach agreements
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Not really. Let's form a hypo. Let's say competing firms agree not to hire each other's lawyers. They brag about it but still occasionally do hire but when one does, the losing firm calls up and complains about the deal. Can, let's say, hypothetically, one of these lawyers, finds out about it and wonders on the internet if he can sue and get lots of money.
Is that a retirement plan? Is that a retirement plan that means that lawyer would be able to hire Mike Bloomberg as his butler?
On another note, what is the typical evidence. No the hypothetical retiring lawyer doesn't have a principal on tape saying "Why are you leaving? We agreed not to hire each others' lawyers to keep costs down." But there are probably a dozen cases of he said, she said.
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Not sure about typical evidence, but sometimes these cases get going because non-lawyers talking to the government about x just start talking about y, where y actually turns out to be illegal.
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