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From: KMC
Date: 27 Apr 2002
Time: 10:06:36
The answer, in theory, is yes. The reason behind many class actions is the huge attorneys' fee, and so an attorney-client conflict of interest is present. In practice, however, the plaintiffs' interest in hanging back exists only in those big cases where individual interest would support individual cases. In other words, the prime example would be mass tort cases, where class actions are rare.