Plaintiffs’ lawyers who obtained a $49 million settlement in an antitrust class action against the parent company of BARBRI are gearing up for another fight before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals — this time, involving their attorneys fees.
Class counsel McGuireWoods, which settled the litigation in 2007, filed a notice of appeal on March 8 after U.S. District Judge Manuel Real of the Central District of California eliminated all the firm’s attorneys fees over an apparent conflict of interest. Two other firms serving as class counsel, New York’s Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling and Washington’s Finkelstein Thompson, whose fees the judge reduced, filed a separate appeal on March 15.
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