Nichols Kaster, a Minneapolis-based firm focused on employment law and consumer rights, has secured $6.57 million in attorney fees, plus nearly $1 million more in litigation and administrative expenses, following a nearly $22 million ERISA class action settlement with Deutsche Bank in Manhattan federal court.

Judge Schofield

U.S District Judge Lorna Schofield of the Southern District of New York approved the settlement March 1 between the international bank and a class of plaintiffs invested in the Deutsche Bank Matched Savings Plan.