This story originally appeared in sibling publication New York Law Journal.
The lawyers who represented the plaintiff investors in a suit against The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. over executive bonuses are arguing that they’re entitled to legal fees, even though the investors quickly dropped the suit. On Thursday, Grant & Eisenhofer attorney Michael Barry urged a New York State appellate court panel to overturn a 2011 ruling by New York State Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried, who ruled that the attorneys should not be awarded fees because the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring their suit in the first place.
