Quinn Emanuel Justifies Huge Fee With $384,000-Per-Hour Returns

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column. I’m Roy Strom, and today we look at a new way to value the work lawyers have done in class-action cases—and what paved the way for what might be the “most efficient” legal work in history. Sign up to receive this column in your Inbox on Thursday mornings.

Quinn Emanuel has new ammunition in its fight for a $185 million fee award, saying in a filing this week that every hour its lawyers worked on the case generated about $384,000 in returns.

That figure, according to a Harvard Law professor the ...