OBJECTION RESULTS IN LAWYER FEES REDUCED IN OIL AND GAS LEASE SUIT - Judge Reduces Fees From $8.5 million To $6.8 million

(11/15/2010)
CHARLESTON - One among 9,000 plaintiffs in a class action objected to a 25 percent fee for lawyers, and U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin agreed with that lone voice.

Goodwin, who approved a settlement between Equitable Production and holders of oil and gas leases last year, sliced class counsel's fee request to 20 percent on Nov. 5.

See   Goodwin Slices Lawyer Fees To $6.8M   By Steve Korris, Kanawha Bureau, The West Virginia Record