money in the costs of those suits. Class counsel may directly profit on time investments in two ways: by billing lawyers at … situations may also recover their costs but courts may not — or at least do not — permit the attorneys either to mark up their … costs or to receive cost multipliers. As cost profits are rarely even debated, there is no good defense of why they are …

costs with standard-cost transfer prices that are determined either by the central office ex-ante (centralized standard …