We are all familiar with the term ‘ambulance chasers’ but, according to one legal conference in California earlier this month, those shady practitioners who specialise in suing the local council when a fleeing shoplifter trips on the pavement represent just the tip of an extremely ominous legal iceberg.
At the Consulegis legal conference in Los Angeles, assembled attorneys hailed the advent of a ruthless new breed of litigators emerging from the rubble left by the string of major tragedies to hit the globe in recent times – so-called ‘disaster lawyers’.
