{"id":4048,"date":"2025-02-06T04:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/roundup-special-masters-report-recommends-lead-counsel-get-0-in-common-benefit-fees\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T04:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:05:58","slug":"roundup-special-masters-report-recommends-lead-counsel-get-0-in-common-benefit-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/roundup-special-masters-report-recommends-lead-counsel-get-0-in-common-benefit-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup Special Master&#8217;s Report Recommends Lead Counsel Get $0 in Common Benefit Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A special master in the Roundup multidistrict litigation recommended returning an estimated $24.4 million in common benefit fees that were allocated for lead counsel, who called the report \u201cinsulting\u201d and rife with \u201cinaccuracies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In a Jan. 15 report, special master William Foster concluded that the 8% common benefit assessment on other lawyers with Roundup cases was arbitrary and unfair, particularly since most of them pursued litigation on their own, rather than rely on lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation. As a result, he recommended not allocating the common benefit fund to lead counsel at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special master in the Roundup multidistrict litigation recommended returning an estimated $24.4 million in common benefit fees that were allocated for lead counsel, who called the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4548,4547,654,1529,2328,2693,1581,1351,1653,3439],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-benefit","tag-common","tag-counsel","tag-fees","tag-lead","tag-masters","tag-recommends","tag-report","tag-roundup","tag-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}