:Plaintiffs' lawyers have asked a San Francisco federal judge to award more than $181 million in legal fees as part of a $725 million data privacy settlement with Facebook parent company Meta Platforms resolving claims over sharing of user information with third parties.
The lawyers said in the filing that the $725 million settlement is the largest data-privacy recovery in history and the largest private settlement Facebook has ever agreed to. Class counsel worked more than 149,000 hours on the case over nearly five years, they said. Meta and an outside lawyer for the company from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the fee request on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in February ordered Meta and Gibson Dunn to pay about $925,000, which included fees and costs, over what he said was an effort to make the litigation unnecessarily difficult and expensive for the plaintiffs.
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