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In Re: Optical Disk Drive Products Antitrust Litigation

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Case Number:

3:10-md-02143

Court:

California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Anti-Trust

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Richard Seeborg

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  1. August 23, 2022

    Hagens Berman Foe Cleared For $630K Objector Award

    A California judge has awarded more than $630,000 in attorney and incentive fees to the objector who shaved $4 million off Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's fee award in a $205 million optical disk price-fixing multidistrict litigation settlement.

  2. August 09, 2022

    Hagens Berman Awarded Over $26M In Fees In Disk Drive MDL

    A California federal judge awarded Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP more than $26.6 million in attorney fees on Monday for securing a $205 million optical disk price-fixing multidistrict litigation settlement, reconfiguring the amount after a Ninth Circuit ruling vacated a $31 million award.

  3. October 19, 2021

    Objector Gets $500 'Incentive' Award From Hagens Berman

    A California federal judge has ordered Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP to cut a $500 "incentive" award check from their attorney fees to objector Shiyang Huang, who helped dramatically reduce the firm's fee award in optical disk price-fixing settlements.

  4. September 09, 2021

    Objector Attys Get $1.5M After 9th Circ. Hagens Berman Fight

    A California federal judge on Thursday awarded an objector's counsel $1.5 million in fees after they helped convince the Ninth Circuit to throw out Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's $47.8 million fee award for work securing $205 million in optical disk drive price-fixing settlements.

  5. July 06, 2021

    Hagens Berman Gets $31M After 9th Circ. Nixed $48M Fee

    A California federal judge has awarded Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP $31 million in attorney fees for work securing $205 million in optical disk price-fixing settlements — about $17 million less than the firm sought following the Ninth Circuit's decision to throw out an earlier $47.8 million fee award.

  6. June 25, 2021

    Judge Mulls Hagens Berman $48M Fee Bid In Disk Drive MDL

    A San Francisco federal judge on Friday skeptically probed Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's revised request for roughly $47.8 million in legal fees for work performed in securing $205 million in optical disk price-fixing settlements, repeatedly questioning how much weight he should give the amount initially submitted in its lead class counsel bid.

  7. May 17, 2021

    Hagens Berman Defends Keeping $52.8M While Fees Revised

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP told a district court Monday that it "did nothing wrong" in holding on to $52.8 million in attorney fees and costs vacated by the Ninth Circuit while the lower court determines its revised fees from $205 million in optical disk price-fixing settlements, and asked the court to award it $47.8 million in fees.

  8. May 17, 2021

    Hagens Berman Mishandled $52.8M, Disk Drive Objector Says

    An objector who successfully appealed $52.8 million in attorney fees and costs awarded to Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for $205 million in optical disk drive price-fixing settlements told a California federal court that the firm's unwillingness to relinquish the disputed funds appears to be "the largest attorney-client misappropriation in history."

  9. April 26, 2021

    Optical Drive Objector Says Hagens Berman Used 'Bad Math'

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP deserves no more than $22.2 million, but probably less, for its role as class counsel in a multidistrict litigation fight over the price-fixing of optical disk drives that netted more than $200 million in settlements, an objector has told the court.

  10. November 12, 2020

    9th Circ. Ruling Cited In Bid To Ax Hagens Berman Fee Claim

    An objector contesting Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's bid for $48 million in attorney fees from optical disk drive price-fixing settlements has pointed to a recent Ninth Circuit ruling that he claims supports his assertion that the law firm is wrongfully holding on to the fees.

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