A federal judge has reduced to $4.71 million from $7.6 million the amount of legal fees that lawyers who represented former Xerox Corp. workers can collect from a successful lawsuit against the company over their pension benefits.
Western District Judge David Larimer ruled from Rochester Monday in Frommert v. Conkright, 00-cv-6311L, that the legal ins-and-outs of a case that has been contested since 2000 do not obscure the fact that more than 100 plaintiffs prevailed in their basic contention in 2011 that Xerox used a “phantom” account to deprive some retirees of benefits to which they were entitled under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (NYLJ, Dec. 24, 2013).
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