Lawyers are seeking $217 million in fees for their work crafting a settlement this month in a class action lawsuit alleging Alphabet Inc.'s Google improperly retained users’ web data while they used a private browsing setting.
The litigation filed in 2020 over Google Chrome’s “incognito” browser was led by lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner, Susman Godfrey and Morgan & Morgan, who asked a federal judge on Tuesday to award the nine-figure fee. Class members in the litigation received no damages, though they can file individual claims in state court.
The lawyers say they worked 78,880 hours on the case, accruing ...
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