Legal Opinion
In Re Trans Union Corp. Privacy Litigation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 14, 2011No. 10-1154PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
It is a curiosity of class action litigation that often there is greater ferocity in combat among the class lawyers over the allocation of attorneys’ fees than there is between the class lawyers and the defendants. The contest among the lawyers is a zero-sum game. But the contest between them and the defendants is a positive-sum game because the class lawyers are naturally very interested in the fee component of any settlement, while the defendants care only about the size of the settlement, including fees. So the lawyers may be willing to settle for less for the class…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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