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WASHINGTON — Lawyers representing American Indians helped win a record $3.4 billion settlement with the federal government. Now they want a judge to double their fees.
Instead of being paid up to $99.9 million, as initially agreed, attorney Dennis Gingold says he and other lawyers deserve at least $224 million for work on the case since 1996.
He and other lawyers “have achieved a stunning landmark victory in this case,” Gingold wrote in a 25-page motion filed Jan. 25 in federal court in Washington. “No lawyers have done so much for so many people in this circuit.”
