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The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has multiple contingency fee agreements in place to pursue recoveries on behalf of the state in a variety of matters. The latest one involves the China-based social media platform, TikTok. IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac talked with Indiana Capital Chronicle about such suits for a news story.

 The Attorney General’s Office has five such suits seeking recovery from automobile parts manufacturers, debt collectors, opioid manufacturer and marketers, pharmaceutical benefits managers, Google, and now TikTok. The office claims the social media platform is grooming children for addiction and has retained a Washington, D.C., law firm seeking damages.

“It’s really time consuming to bring these cases in, and it’s risky for the lawyers because they don’t collect anything, typically, unless they win,” Professor Drobac said in the story.

Professor Drobac is a widely known expert in sexual harassment law. She is an author of the textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Practice, recently published by Carolina Academic Press. She co-authored the book with Professor Carrie N. Baker of Smith College and Professor Rigel C. Oliveri of the University of Missouri School of Law.  Professor Drobac is at work on her next book, The Myth of Consent, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. That work will explore the neuroscience of decision making in vulnerable adults and how the science should influence law reform, particularly the law of consent. She is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law.