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May 27, 2016
A timely controversy over attorney fees
Uproar over the size of the attorney fees in the Uber class action settlement comes right as the state high court will hear arguments in a similar case. By Lawrence Schonbrun
The upcoming hearing on the proposed settlement of the Uber employee/independent contractor class action (O'Connor v. Uber Technologies) is shaping up as unusually contentious. What I find particularly interesting is that charges and countercharges of attorney greed are said to be at the center of the controversy. Objectors' New York counsel, Hunter Shkolnik, accuses "greedy" class counsel of selling out the class...
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