Right, so in such a case, if the lawyers decided to work for free and give ALL the money to the class members, you'd get back a whopping $7.50 instead of $5.00.

Right, so in such a case, if the lawyers decided to work for free and give ALL the money to the class members, you'd get back a whopping $7.50 instead of $5.00. Really, these cases are mostly a way for lawyers to make money, because on a person-by-person basis there's just not enough money to be made in pursuing legal action, but with millions of class members, the aggregate amount is pretty high, and 20 or 33% of that for the lawyers ends up being a nice paycheck.