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Ed Kraus has quietly toiled for the last eight years as a public-interest lawyer at Chicago-Kent College of Law, helping less-fortunate individuals with medical disabilities obtain federal benefits.
He has turned away too many potential clients to remember because their cases would have been too expensive for his no-frills health law clinic to pursue. But his practice has received a boost from an unexpected source: Madison County in Downstate Illinois. The law school’s parent, the Illinois Institute of Technology, was one of five recipients to share in a $20 million jackpot, unclaimed money from a $60 million class-action settlement involving the diabetes drug Rezulin.
The payout highlights one of the rarely publicized potential benefits of consumer class-action suits, which have been criticized in recent years for bringing little economic value to victims while enriching trial lawyers.
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