From the business insider article "[if they were fake] we imagine DLA Piper's investigators would already have exposed it"
I agree w/Biz Insider - A big tech law firm that is almost certainly working on contingency rather than billing $500/hr is a fair indication that there's some meat to this case.
Come to think of it this way. If there is even a 10% chance that this is true and the settlement would be at least in the range of $200M to $1B (wild guess), and the lawyer's fee is 30%, that's an expected payoff of $60M to $300M. Nothing to sneeze at.
Even if they lose, think about it, DLA probably already have some spin about how they are just being "professional" about due diligence and doing the best they could for their client. No loss in reputation.
I disagree. If these are proved to be fake, then DLA will have this reputation of being ambulance-chasers. It would definitely hurt their reputation.
Plus, the legal costs of pursuing a case like this is likely to be extremely high. If the evidence is so weak to be thrown out even before it comes to court, then I don't think they would pursue it.
Yes... but still sceptical. I'd like to know what due diligence was done, and by whom. And exactly what they did (i.e. to the computers, these emails etc.).
It would certainly be possible to fool someone that such emails were legit depending on what sort of verification job they did.
I agree w/Biz Insider - A big tech law firm that is almost certainly working on contingency rather than billing $500/hr is a fair indication that there's some meat to this case.