In re Outsidewall Tire Litigation

*302MEMORANDUM OPINION

T. S. Ellis, III, United States District Judge

At issue on remand from the Fourth Circuit in this copyright infringement and conversion case is the proper quantum meruit analysis of the fee award to which plaintiffs’ former counsel is entitled and the proper contract analysis of the costs to which plaintiffs’ former counsel is entitled. The dispute is between (i) plaintiffs, who *303won a final and now-affirmed $26 million judgment against various foreign corporations,1 and (ii) Gilbert LLP (the “Gilbert Firm”), plaintiffs’ former counsel, over the value of the latter’s lien for…