A New York federal judge is not budging on his insistence that attorney fees of 20 percent are high enough in the litigation over collusion in the modeling agency business. The judge has refused a request by lawyers for the models, who in 2004 won a hard-fought settlement with the Wilhelmina Model Agency and nine other agencies, to increase fees from the slightly more than $4.3 million already awarded. The suit brought by the models alleged widespread price-fixing in the industry.
September 22, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Southern District of New York Judge Harold Baer Jr. is not budging on his insistence that attorney’s fees of 20 percent are high enough in the litigation over collusion in the modeling agency business.
Baer last week refused a request by lawyers for the models, who in 2004 won a hard-fought settlement with the Wilhelmina Model Agency and nine other agencies, to increase fees from the slightly more than $4.3 million already awarded.
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