You said:...

"...as stated in an earlier post where DM uses approx. 4% of their total budget for these lawsuits."...

That was before they met with EDIG...Lol...Lol...

It is clear that they really stuck their collective necks out on this one. They must have concluded, (in their evaluation of EDIG), that EDIG case had better than 90% chance of being lucretive to have extended their usual 4% allocation for Contingency Fee cases...

Gil...