How dairy? Lawyer could pocket $90k in Dunkin’ case, leaving $500 for client

The Boston Globe reports:

A central Massachusetts man who sued more than 20 Dunkin’ Donuts shops for allegedly using margarine when he ordered buttered bagels would receive $500 — while his attorney collects as much as $90,000 — under the terms of proposed settlement filed in Suffolk Superior Court this week.

But customers of the stores named in the legal action will have to be content with counting calories. According to the settlement terms, 1,400 of them would each be eligible to receive three buttered baked goods — free of charge.

Jan Polanik in late March filed two suits, each targeting a cluster of Dunkin’ franchises in Eastern and Central Massachusetts. His attorney, Thomas Shapiro, has been seeking class-action status, hoping to represent anybody who ordered baked goods with butter between June 2012 and June of last year, but were given a substitute.

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