Google ‘Incognito’ Case Attorneys Unlikely to Win $217 Million

A group of lawyers who settled a class action with Google LLC over privacy issues with Chrome’s “Incognito” mode are unlikely to get their total attorneys’ fee award request of $217 million, a federal judge said Wednesday.

At a hearing in Oakland federal court, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers also expressed skepticism of Google’s request to cut the plaintiffs’ attorney fees request by 25% across the board, and chided the company’s attorneys for asking her to review thousands of the plaintiffs’ attorneys time sheet entries on her own.

The four-year-old case reached an accord in April on the eve of trial, ...