Intellectual Property
Dec. 5, 2025
Class counsel request 20% fee in historic $1.5B Anthropic deal
A motion filed Thursday seeks $300 million in fees and nearly $2 million in expenses as Judge William Alsup of San Francisco prepares to step aside before final approval of the Anthropic settlement.
Plaintiffs' lawyers who represent authors and publishers, led by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Susman Godfrey LLP, asked a federal judge for $300 million in attorney fees along with additional expenses for reaching a $1.5 billion settlement of their copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic PBC.
In a motion filed Thursday morning, attorneys for the class requested 20% of the recovery, which they said was "markedly below" the 25% benchmark for ...
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