{"id":4769,"date":"2025-03-17T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/roundup-judge-orders-distribution-of-24m-common-benefit-fees\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:04:45","slug":"roundup-judge-orders-distribution-of-24m-common-benefit-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/roundup-judge-orders-distribution-of-24m-common-benefit-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup Judge Orders Distribution of $24M Common Benefit Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A federal judge who once decried the Roundup multidistrict litigation lead counsel\u2019s request for common benefit fees as an \u201cexample of MDLs gone wild\u201d has ordered the distribution of $24.2 million to those firms and four others that worked on the cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In a March 13 order, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California found that \u201cthe work performed by these firms conferred a significant benefit on all the plaintiffs in this MDL.\u201d Although the distribution amount is far below lead counsel\u2019s original 2021 request, estimated at $800 million, Chhabria\u2019s order rejected a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/therecorder\/2025\/02\/05\/roundup-special-masters-report-recommends-lead-counsel-get-0-in-common-benefit-fees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>special master\u2019s recommendation<\/u><\/a> to grant $0 in common benefit fees.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/therecorder\/2025\/02\/05\/roundup-special-masters-report-recommends-lead-counsel-get-0-in-common-benefit-fees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge who once decried the Roundup multidistrict litigation lead counsel\u2019s request for common benefit fees as an \u201cexample of MDLs gone wild\u201d has ordered the distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5137,4548,4547,1803,1529,423,1412,1653],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-24m","tag-benefit","tag-common","tag-distribution","tag-fees","tag-judge","tag-orders","tag-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","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=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}