{"id":4427,"date":"2025-02-28T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/who-got-the-1b-legal-fees-from-pfas-forever-chemical-settlements\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:04:11","slug":"who-got-the-1b-legal-fees-from-pfas-forever-chemical-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/who-got-the-1b-legal-fees-from-pfas-forever-chemical-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Got The $1B+ Legal Fees From PFAS &#8216;Forever Chemical&#8217; Settlements?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Following nearly $15 billion in settlements over \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in public drinking water, a special master recommended which firms should get the more than $1 billion in attorney fees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Special Master John Perry, of Perry, Balhoff, Mengis &amp; Burns in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was assigned to allocate attorney fees after U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, of the Southern District of South Carolina, approved them, considered the \u201cnumber of hours expended, the professional level of the timekeeper, the nature of the task, and the amount of monetary investment\u201d in determining which firms got what amount. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following nearly $15 billion in settlements over \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in public drinking water, a special master recommended which firms should get the more than $1 billion in attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1246,1529,136,669,4853],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-chemical","tag-fees","tag-legal","tag-pfas","tag-settlements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","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=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}