In an apparently unprecedented part of the settlement, the P.B.A. paid $1.625 million toward the total award.
So if the total award were three billion dollars, his fee would be two hundred and seventy million dollars.
The ruling brings the total award in a five-year legal battle over creative ownership of the idea to $41.9 million.
The total awarded to small companies is almost certainly overstated and the total available to them is likely understated.
Yet some councils made the decision to top up the money they received from the DWP from their own coffers, taking the total awarded to £21.4m.
The court also granted Ms. Tucker legal fees, bringing the total award to about $153,000 , 2.6percent of Mr. Phillips's compensation.
Judge Victor Marrero of United States District Court in Manhattan reduced the total award to $53 million from the $132 million a Manhattan jury in May ordered Island Def Jam and its chief executive, Lyor Cohen, to pay to TVT Records.
A French court gave a $34 million award in the UTA airline bombing, but the French ambassador said today that amounts ranging from $3,000 to $30,000 were awarded to the survivors' families, while the airline company and its insurer received the bulk of the total award.
The check is worth about half the total award, which matches the amount the owners are spending to restore the three-story buildings, which have a total of seven commercial units intended to house restaurants and shops, said Dennis Frost, the district's grant project manager.
Nowadays, the winners are not so much the victims of corporate wrongdoing as the lawyers.Under America's contingency-fee system, designed to help the little guy pursue claims in a country without legal aid, plaintiffs' lawyers normally agree to forgo their fees if the case fails, but claim a big slice usually around a third, but sometimes up to half of the total award if they win.
