A federal judge censured lead counsel in the Yahoo data breach settlement for retaining thousands of dollars in attorney fees that likely should have gone to a small San Diego plaintiffs’ firm.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was assigned to the $117.5 million data breach settlement with Yahoo after a dispute arose between lead counsel John Yanchunis, a Tampa, Florida, partner at Morgan & Morgan, and Zaveri Tabb, which sought clarification about whether lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation failed to pay $56,444 of its fees.
