Welcome to Critical MassLaw.com’s briefing on class actions and mass torts. I’m Amanda Bronstad in Los Angeles. That $1 billion check that Wells Fargo says it might pay to federal regulators? Don’t bank on it, lawyers say. The NFLasks for an offside call against some lawyers in the concussion settlement. And a new suit claims plaintiffs attorney Walter Umphrey’s former mistresssnookered him out of $2 million.

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