Requested Amount Is 1.7% Of $10 Billion Settlement Fund.
Recently, lead counsel for the class in the Volkswagen emissions case, an MDL case assigned to U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in the N.D. Cal., announced that class counsel will be requesting $175 million in attorney’s fees from the district court, which is about 1.7% of the $10 billion class settlement fund, according to a Law360 report.