The Phipps Group v. Don Downing & Adam Levitt, etc

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

The district court 1 appointed Don Downing and Adam Levitt, among others, as leadership counsel to coordinate the pretrial activities of plaintiffs in a multidis-trict litigation (“MDL”). The Phipps Group (“Phipps”) represented some plaintiffs, but was not a member of the attorney leadership group. In 2010, the district court established a common benefit trust fund (“the Fund”) to compensate the leadership group for their common benefit work. The plaintiffs settled the litigation. In 2012, the district court awarded common benefit fees from the Fund to leadership…