A former name partner at Philadelphia-area trial firm Williams Cuker Berezofsky will not be required to share fees from a class action over water contamination in Flint, Michigan, with her former partners.

In an order entered Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed an arbitration award from last year, which said litigator Esther Berezofsky was not obligated by a dissolution agreement to include her former partner, Mark Cuker, in the Flint litigation.