MY POLICY ABOUT CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSES IN SETTLEMENTS
It was my policy over my 50 years of representing plaintiffs to refuse to agree to any form of confidentiality as an imposed requirement of settlement by a defendant. My policy was that clients were free to keep the information personally confidential and from media or public disclosure if they wanted to do so, but the defendant could not require it as a condition of settlement. In addition, my policy for accepting a case for a client was that I…