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Yep attorneys who sue big pharma/tobacco and win, like Vioxx, probably made 30-40% of the total judgment.
A lot of times those are when several plaintiff firms that join together and fund a lawsuit. In a "multi-district litigation" or MDL, the common issues of those many claims can be consolidated in one court. The individual plaintiff's attorneys, or some of them, direct the multi-district litigation through a committee of lawyers known as a plaintiff's steering committee. This is many times 10 or more plaintiff firms. In the end they will all split 30-40% of the judgement + the fees they amassed fighting the lawsuits. On a 300M judgement with 2,000 plaintiffs the average plaintiff (person actually wronged not the lawyer) will get 50-100k while the 10 plaintiff firms with split the 90-120 million after expenses, so in general 9-12 million per plaintiff's firm.