More than 140 law firms have applied for leadership positions in litigation targeting Volkswagen A.G. over the company’s “clean diesel” emissions scandal. Among the contenders are firms such as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Boies, Schiller & Flexner, which are not typically seen on the plaintiffs side of class action litigation.
VW admitted last year that it equipped hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the U.S. with software designed to cheat emissions tests. Last month, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated more than 500 lawsuits filed against the company before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California.
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