In the Matter Of: Synthroid Marketing Litigation

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• recognizing that in some circumstances a sliding scale arrangement will not be ideal
• noting that market rate depends “in part on the amount of work necessary to resolve the litigation”
• reasoning that “[p]rivate parties would never contract for such an arrangement, because it would eliminate counsel’s incentive to press for” a higher settlement
• explaining that “only ex ante can the costs and benefits of par- ticular systems and risk multipliers be assessed intelli- gently”
• holding that “[m]arkets would not tolerate [the megafund] effect”
• stating that risk of nonpayment is factor to consider in setting fee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).