Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, testifies before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees, regarding the unauthorized gathering of millions of Facebook users’ data by consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, on Capitol Hill, on April 10, 2018. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
One hundred and eighty-one million dollars in attorney fees.
That’s how much plaintiffs lawyers are asking for after nearly five years of litigation and a record $725 million class action settlement with Facebook over its Cambridge Analytica scandal. The amount, most of which would compensate just two plaintiffs firms, Seattle’s Keller Rohrback and Bleichmar Fonti & Auld in Oakland, California, is substantial, even among fee awards in other mega-sized class action settlements.
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