A lawyer who won an $18.3 million verdict for a Staten Island Ferry victim has won his own nearly two-year battle to keep $6 million in attorney fees.
Evan Torgan represented James McMillan, 46, who was paralyzed from the chest down in the crash of the Andrew J. Barberi on Oct. 15, 2003.
Torgan won the $18.3 million verdict in 2008, but Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein shortly thereafter cut his fee from the standard one-third to 20 percent, saying that by the time the case went to trial, the city’s liability had been proven.
Weinstein reversed his decision Monday.
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