Slater Mass Tort Firm Fights Bid to Ax Boy Scout Claimant Fees

Mass tort plaintiffs’ firm Slater Slater Schulman LLP urged the judge overseeing the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy to reject an “improper” attempt by an unspecified number of its former clients to terminate thousands of contingency fee arrangements.

The US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware shouldn’t entertain an Oct. 14 motion that was filed “to generate publicity” and attack Slater for its work representing thousands of former scouts who filed sex abuse claims in the nonprofit organization’s Chapter 11 case, the firm said in a filing Thursday.

Slater last month informed clients that a trust administering the Boy ...