GM Ignition Switch Attorney Fees Reallocated for Three Firms

Three law firms that represented consumers in a class settlement over allegedly defective General Motors LLC ignition switches will get about $200,000 more than initially allocated to them after a federal court in New York approved an agreement among class counsel.

Two large firms acting as lead class counsel for the consumers who settled with GM over economic loss, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, will take the hit so that other attorneys won’t be affected, according to the proposal approved May 28 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New ...