Lawyers Get $14.7 Million in Altria’s Juul Marketing Settlement

Class counsel in a lawsuit against Altria Group Inc., stemming from claims that it deceptively marketed Juul e-cigarette products to minors, are entitled to $13.7 million in fees plus $1 million in costs a federal court said.

The fee is 30% of the $45.5 million settlement between Altria and the plaintiffs in the multi-district litigation, Judge William H. Orrick III said Wednesday in an opinion for the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The case involved hundreds of plaintiffs, Orrick said. There were also “more than 33 million pages of documents produced by defendants and reviewed by ...