#TVC PRO DRIVER OKC OK OFFICE PRO#Lawmakers ‘extremely concerned’ by Hunter’s opioid settlement by Tres SavageĬoffee is a former Senate Pro Tem and was a paid legal advisor to Hunter’s 2018 campaign. ![]() Those firms will collect 90 percent of the $55.5 million in contingency fees (after a $4 million reduction to help pay for opioid addiction treatment). Most of the courtroom appearances, briefs and motions were made by assistant attorney generals or lawyers for the other two outside law firms, Texas-based Nix Patterson LLP and Oklahoma City-based Whitten Burrage. And Coffee was among the officials in the room when Hunter announced a $270 million settlement with Purdue on March 26.īut a review of the publicly available court file shows little involvement by Coffee in the day-to-day work of the case, which was filed in June 2017. Coffee is notified of every filing in the voluminous case, which is set to go to trial in Cleveland County at the end of May. ![]() ( Editor’s note: This story was authored by Paul Monies and Trevor Brown of Oklahoma Watch and appears here in accordance with the non-profit journalism organization’s republishing terms.)Īttorneys in the state’s sprawling opioid lawsuit have bragged that they slept on cots in their offices and went through millions of pages of evidence.īut one private attorney in the case, a former legislative leader, stands to make $5.6 million in the recent settlement against Purdue Pharma despite having no obvious role documented in court filings and little trial experience in cases like the one Attorney General Mike Hunter brought against Purdue and other drug makers.Īttorney Glenn Coffee’s firm in Oklahoma City is one of three outside law firms contracted by Hunter in the opioid case.
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