Lawyers’ Row Over Fees From Syngenta Litigation Headed to Trial

Three law firms fighting over more than $29 million in attorneys’ fees stemming from the $1.5 billion class settlement with Syngenta AG over genetically modified corn will have to proceed to trial to resolve their claims.

Crumley Roberts LLP and Burke Harvey LLC allege that Henninger Garrison Davis LLC broke an oral agreement to divide the fees evenly among the three firms. HGD argues that the agreement only extended to the division of contingent fees, not to common benefit fees like those at issue in the case.

Denying summary judgment to all parties, Judge John W. Lungstrum of the US ...