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Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and everything else that causes lawyers to dream big. That includes David Boies, who’s seeking to extract a billion-dollar fee from his work battling Google. I caught up with him in D.C. to talk about his firm’s evolving business model, potential I.P.O. plans, and his next huge score.
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Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and everything else that causes lawyers to dream big.

That includes David Boies, who’s seeking to extract a billion-dollar fee from his work battling Google. I caught up with him in D.C. to talk about his firm’s evolving business model, potential I.P.O. plans, and his next huge score. Plus: a Ryan Murphy settlement, and the drama at Clare Locke, 777 Partners, Media Matters, and much much more. (P.S. Are you still getting these emails forwarded to you? Do yourself a favor and subscribe here.)

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The plaintiffs who sued Google aren’t receiving a penny, but the law firms who represented them are looking at a historic billion-dollar bonanza over the company’s “incognito” mode scandal. David Boies, one of the lead attorneys, says more 10-figure paydays are coming.

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A couple weeks ago, news broke about an exceptional legal settlement in a multiyear class action against Google. The tech giant agreed to expunge the data it amassed from people using Chrome’s so-called “Incognito” mode. The class-action attorneys—from Boies Schiller, Susman Godfrey, and Morgan & Morgan—hailed the settlement as a “historic step” for user privacy, while Google also struck a triumphant note, boasting...

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