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Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little?, Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little?, Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Class action lawyers are some of the most frequently derided players in our system of civil litigation. It is often asserted that class action lawyers take too much from class judgments as fees, that class actions are little more than a device for the lawyers to enrich themselves at the expense of the class. In this Article, I argue that some of this criticism of class action lawyers is misguided. In particular, I perform a normative examination of fee percentages in class action litigation using the social-welfarist utilitarian account of litigation known as deterrence-insurance theory. I argue that in perhaps …