U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield of the Southern District of New York knocked more than three-and-a-half percentage points off the requested attorney fees in the blockbuster $2.3 billion settlement over price-fixing by banks in the foreign exchange market, but that still left the lawyers for the 15 consolidated cases with more than $300 million in approved fees.

As the court noted, the litigation involved several hundred attorneys working over the course five years, resulting in what the plaintiffs claim is the third largest antitrust class action settlement in history.