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Thomas Collentine, Jr., Et Al., Order Granting In Part And Denying In Part Merrill Lynch's Evidentiary Application For Attorney's Fees, John J. Goger
Thomas Collentine, Jr., Et Al., Order Granting In Part And Denying In Part Merrill Lynch's Evidentiary Application For Attorney's Fees, John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
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Distributing Attorney Fees In Multidistrict Litigation, Edward K. Cheng, Paul H. Edelman, Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Distributing Attorney Fees In Multidistrict Litigation, Edward K. Cheng, Paul H. Edelman, Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
As consolidated multidistrict litigation has come to dominate the federal civil docket, the problem of how to divide attorney fees among participating firms has become the source of frequent and protracted litigation. For example, in the National Football League (NFL) Concussion Litigation, the judge awarded the plaintiff attorneys over $100 million in fees, but the division of those fees among the twenty-six firms involved sparked two additional years of litigation. We explore solutions to this fee division problem, drawing insights from the economics, game theory, and industrial organization literatures. Ultimately, we propose a novel division method based on peer reports. …