While describing their work on the case as “extraordinary,” a New York federal judge nevertheless chopped a $73 million attorneys fee award sought by five law firms in the case by one-third in a recent order approving a $224 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against News Corp.
The law firms, Washington, D.C.’s Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, two Texas-based firms—Susman Godfrey and McKool Smith—New York’s Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, and Washington, D.C., lawyer R. Stephen Berry of Berry Law, represented a class of plaintiff consumer goods firms who sued News Corp. in an antitrust action.
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