A class action litigator in California apparently inadvertently left a confession in time entries submitted to the court that his billable hours were inflated by nearly 2x. The judge noticed. scribd.com/document/51284… 
via @KinseyAndrew, who has the details of the lawyers’ scramble to clean this up. One excerpt:
https://twitter.com/KinseyAndrew/status/1408048819032539145
via @Ev4nGaines, the court held its show cause hearing for the class action attorneys who cooked their hours today. The judge didn’t hold them in contempt, but sanctioned them—fining each $10,000–and utterly shredded their explanations. occourts.org/tentativerulin…
The sting of the judge’s rebuke is lessened somewhat by his omission of item number 2 from the list, I think.
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