SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers who sued Apple for denying warranty coverage will receive $13.25 million in fees, a federal judge ordered Monday, rejecting Apple’s arguments that they deserve far less.
Kimberly Kralowec with The Kralowec Law Group in San Francisco, Jeffrey Fazio and Dina Micheletti of Fazio Micheletti in San Ramon, and counsel Steven Schwartz and partner Timothy Matthews of Chimicles & Tikellis in Pennsylvania, had asked for $15.9 million, or 30 percent of the $53 million settlement. But on Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg awarded the standard 25 percent used as a benchmark by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
