SAN FRANCISCO — If you were expecting a knock-down, drag-out fight for the lead plaintiff spot in the litigation springing from the hacking scandal at Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., think again.
Lawyers from Keller Rohrback, Girard Gibbs and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein filed an unopposed motion to consolidate the seven proposed class actions filed in federal court so far on behalf of current and former Sony employees whose personal information allegedly was compromised in the cyberattack. The unopposed motion, which is subject to approval from U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner of the Central District of California, also proposes to have the three firms named interim colead class counsel.
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