Holding account on a well-known class action legal company of prolonging litigation over iPhone and iPad prices after the original plaintiff in the case attempted to withdraw, Apple and Amazon have requested a total of $223,000 in sanctions against the firm.
Last month, Kymberly Evanson, a US district judge in Seattle, ruled that the companies could request reimbursement from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro for not disclosing its client's desire to withdraw from the case right away.
In its fee request, the companies stated that their legal teams had spent over 350 hours working on motions pertaining to the plaintiff's information request.
But the firm did not immediately disclose this to the court, the judge said, and instead created the impression that Floyd "had suddenly fallen out of contact in January 2024, for reasons his counsel did not know and possibly unrelated to the litigation."
The tech companies stated that they would only ask for fees that were comparable to the hourly rates that are normally paid in the Western District of Washington.
There are other partners at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan who charge $3,000 per hour besides William Burck and Alex Spiro.
For the purposes of the fee request, Weil partner Mark Perry, a lawyer from Washington, D.C., who co-leads the firm's strategic consulting and appellate practice, stated that his hourly rate was $900.
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In a $34 million fee dispute between Quinn Emanuel and his former client Desktop Metal, court documents revealed that the firm's co-managing partner, Michael Carlinsky, is also billing at the $3,000 hourly rate.