MDL-2323 IN RE: NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS' CONCUSSION INJURY LITIGATION

  1. November 21, 2024

    NFL Paid $1.3B In Concussions Settlement So Far, 4% Atty Fees

    The National Football League has paid more than $1.3 billion to settle claims from former professional athletes who suffered neurological damage due to concussions sustained while playing, with 4% of that earmarked for their attorneys, according to a report by the court appointed special master and claim administrator for the multidistrict litigation.

  2. May 28, 2024

    Seeger Weiss Secures Latest Fee Bid In NFL Concussion Case

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday granted Seeger Weiss LLP's latest fee request for close to $1.9 million in attorney fees and costs for its ongoing work implementing an agreement settling former National Football League players' concussion-linked disability claims.

  3. April 30, 2024

    Special Master Rejects Fee Bid In NFL Concussion Case

    Goldberg Persky & White PC should not receive a cut of legal fees for its unsuccessful efforts to receive a settlement that another law firm later secured for a former National Football League player related to concussion-linked disability claims, a special master has said.

  4. March 01, 2024

    Atty Censured Over Conduct In NFL Concussion MDL

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has rejected objections from a law firm and its principal and affirmed a special masters' determination that the attorney be censured for engaging in "questionable behavior" while trying to secure monetary awards for clients from the NFL players' concussion injury litigation settlement.

  5. September 06, 2023

    NFL Player's 1st Firm Entitled To Half Contingency Fee

    An Atlanta law firm representing an NFL player who eventually replaced it with another firm is entitled to half the original contingency fee agreed to from the outset of the litigation, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.

  6. August 01, 2023

    NFL Concussion Firm Won't Get Cut Of Ex-Client's Deal

    A California firm that formerly represented a plaintiff in the NFL's concussion litigation will be shut out of receiving legal fees from a settlement with the league after a Pennsylvania federal judge decided Friday to back a federal magistrate judge's finding that the firm had no reasonable claim to funds.

  7. April 19, 2022

    NFL Concussion Firm Asks Judge Not To Block Its Fees

    Blocking Mitnick Law Firm's access to settlement money disbursed from the NFL concussion litigation would impede the firm's ability to process the payments and distribute awards to its clients, according to a recent filing in a federal lawsuit seeking to stop Mitnick from receiving fees from the litigation.

  8. April 14, 2022

    NFL Concussion Firm Hit With TRO Bid Over Fees

    Litigation funder Balanced Bridge Funding LLC says Mitnick Law Office owes it more than $3 million in attorney fees from the NFL concussion settlement and asked a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday to freeze any additional fees likely to be paid out following the removal of controversial race norms in the settlement.

  9. February 23, 2022

    NFL, Concussion Counsel Rebut Race-Norming Concerns

    NFL concussion class counsel Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP, the NFL and two former players struck back at the allegation by a Goldberg Persky & White PC attorney that class counsel breached a fiduciary duty to the class in allowing the controversial use of race-norming to enter the settlement, saying it "ignores the critical fact that race-norming was never required by" the class action settlement.

  10. February 16, 2022

    Concerns Aired Over Atty's Release In NFL Race-Norming Deal

    A Goldberg Persky & White PC attorney representing former NFL players in the concussion settlement on Wednesday raised concerns with a release of claims against NFL concussion class counsel Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP included in an agreement to end the controversial use of race-based norms in the settlement, calling it a "crippling blow" to former players.