Law Firms Battle Over NFL-Concussion Litigation Proceeds

By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Litigation is by its nature a battle.  In the usual case, the plaintiff battles the defendant(s) to gain coin of the realm, an injunction, a declaration of rights or perhaps all of that.  Occasionally the battle ground shifts, and it evolves into a contest between plaintiff’s various counsel over proceeds, and so it was in one of the offshoots of the NFL Concussion Litigation settlement, (Turner v. NFL (In Re NFL Players’ Concussion Injury Litigatio