{"id":2327,"date":"2007-05-16T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/justice_served.html"},"modified":"2007-05-16T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:20:11","slug":"justice_served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/justice_served.html","title":{"rendered":"Justice Served!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than perpetuate this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/05\/16\/2007-05-16_lawyers_1m_fortune_cookie.html\">pro bono ruse<\/a> Skadden should have just donated $1 million to Legal Aid &#8212; I&#8217;m pretty sure their attorneys are cheaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Chinatown restaurant workers who claimed their bosses stole their tips and cheated them out of overtime thought they&#8217;d scored a major payday when a judge awarded them $700,000 in February.<\/p>\n<p>But their lawyers ended up the bigger winners &#8212; tallying $1 million in legal fees, even though they took on the case pro bono.<\/p>\n<p>A judge this week awarded attorneys&#8217; fees of as much as $450-an-hour to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &#038; Flom, who argued the case on behalf of waiters, busboys and captains at the 88 Palace Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The case was unusually difficult and complex, the resources required to prosecute it immense,&#8221; Manhattan Federal Judge Gerard Lynch wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Skadden Arps attorney Mark Cheffo said his firm will donate most of the money &#8220;to the support of Asian-American legal endeavors.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than perpetuate this pro bono ruse Skadden should have just donated $1 million to Legal Aid &#8212; I&#8217;m pretty sure their attorneys are cheaper: Chinatown restaurant workers who claimed their bosses stole their tips and cheated them out of overtime thought they&#8217;d scored a major payday when a judge awarded them $700,000 in February. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}