Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Edelson plans to file a new racketeering lawsuit, calling Girardi Keese a “criminal enterprise, disguised as a law firm.” Lead counsel defended their fees and a 1.4% claims rate in the $92 million TikTok privacy class action settlement. Find out who got appointed to lead the multidistrict litigation over SoClean devices.

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Jay Edelson, founder and CEO of Edelson

Edelson: Girardi Keese Was ‘A Tale Out of a John Grisham Novel.’