August 23, 2022
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.
August 09, 2022
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.
October 19, 2021
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.
September 09, 2021
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.
July 06, 2021
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.
June 25, 2021
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.
May 17, 2021
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.
May 17, 2021
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."
April 26, 2021
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.
November 12, 2020
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.