Don Campbell has quietly become one of the most respected Plaintiff's attorneys in town (bio available here). Mr. Campbell and his firm Campbell & Williams don't get a lot of coverage on this blog because there's very little gossip spread about him, other than the fact that he's an intimidating opponent for defense counsel.Well, a few weeks back, the RJ reported that Don Campbell was living the Plaintiff's attorney's dream--causing an impact to the defendant's bottom line in order to try to change the way they behave:
Las Vegas Sands Corp. paid three men $42.5 million to settle a lawsuit in June, according to the operator's second-quarter earnings release Thursday.
The figure contributed to the company's net loss of $222.2 million in the quarter ended June 30. Las Vegas Sands also blamed the challenging economy, a noncash
impairment charge of $151.2 million and an increase in certain expenses that drove the company to its sixth straight quarterly loss.
Due to a confidentiality agreement, Campbell did not comment to the RJ about the case, but the paper summarized that the case was over money paid to LV Sands to help businessmen acquire a Macau gaming license:
The lawsuit was the second such action the company faced over its Macau licensing efforts in 14 months. In May 2008, a Clark County jury awarded Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen almost $60 million for his help in introducing Las Vegas Sands executives to Chinese government officials.
Okay, so it's not a lawsuit punishing [insert demonized company or industry here] for harming a little old lady. But impacting a company's bottom line to that degree is an impressive achievement.
