Panel Affirms City’s Contingency Fees With Law Firms For UCL Suit Over Data Leak

Mealey's (April 28, 2022, 12:58 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California appellate panel on April 26 affirmed San Diego’s contingency fee arrangement with three private law firms hired for a suit against a data analytics company accused of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by allegedly allowing a Vietnamese hacker access to the personal information of more than 400,000 California residents, finding that the arrangement doesn’t violate standards of neutrality or the UCL....