British Petroleum as Victim
May 6, 2010 at 11:05 AM Leave a comment
Tony Hayward, the CEO of British Petroleum (BP), told The Times of London yesterday that there will be “lots of illegitimate claims” made against BP as a result of the Gulf oil spill, setting the stage for BP to belittle and dismiss potential claimants, and to insinuate it is, in essence, being harassed.
As a former paralegal who worked on lawsuits involving huge corporations, I know it is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to take on a corporation like BP. Corporations have armies of lawyers whose sole purpose is to bombard private attorneys with make-work in an effort to frustrate them into dropping their cases. No lawyer is going to do file suit unless he thinks he can win because BP will make that lawyer’s life hell. Sure, there will probably be a few illegitimate claims, but I’m willing to bet that the vast majority won’t be.
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