McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge: Following the settlement for over $54 million of a securities class action, plaintiffs’ counsel sought attorneys’ fees of 25% of the recovery, amounting to $13.5 million. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kram, J.) declined to award that amount. Instead, the court awarded $2.1 million, amounting to about 4% of the recovery, based on counsel’s “lodestar”…
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