Texarkana class-action attorney John Goodson said he had “very little involvement” in the case of Mark and Katherine Adams v. United Services Automobile Association.
The handling of that case, as you know, is the subject of possible sanctions against Goodson and 16 other attorneys who represented either the plaintiffs or defendants in that case.
We caught up with Goodson, who has never returned calls to Arkansas Business, right after the hearing in front of Chief U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III, who will rule on the sanctions in a few weeks. (See Old Ruling Haunts Class-action Lawyers and Posturing for the Press (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note) for more on the hearing.)
Goodson declined to comment further after giving us that short statement.
Goodson’s law partner, Matt Keil, said in an affidavit filed in December in connection with the case that their firm, Keil & Goodson P.A., “has participated as Class Counsel in this matter. Along with my co-counsel, we worked tirelessly as a team on this case, collectively investing significant hours over the span of the last two years.”
Attorney Stephen Engstrom of Little Rock, who was listed as a plaintiffs’ attorney in Adams federal case, said at the hearing in front of Holmes on Feb. 18 that he also had very little do with the Adams case. He told Holmes he was not involved in the settlement negotiations.
Whispers tried to ask Engstrom who did the heavy-lifting, but he said he would take his own lawyer’s advice and decline comment.
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