The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit entered an opinion Tuesday on the ethical obligations of class action counsel that arose in class actions against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

And Andrew Berman, a shareholder at Young Berman Karpf & Gonzalez in Miami, said the takeaway from the ruling is that the fiduciary obligation of lawyers in a class action context is far different from what it is when representing individual clients.