A judge this week awarded Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Susman Godfrey, and Hausfeld LLP just a fraction of the $15 million in attorney fees and costs they were seeking for winning a historic jury verdict in a price-fixing case against Chinese Vitamin C manufacturers.
In a 12-page ruling issued on Monday, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn granted the firms $4.1 million in attorney fees and no costs. Cogan credited them for the “high quality” of their work, writing that he had no problem with their hourly rates of $375 an hour for junior associates to $980 an hour for senior partners. But the judge determined that all of the lawyers costs and good chunk of their fees had already been covered by earlier settlements with codefendants.
