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In Berger v. Pubco Corp., 2008 WL 4173860 (Sept. 8. 2008), the Delaware Chancery Court addressed the amount of attorneys’ fees to be awarded to plaintiff’s attorneys whose litigation efforts resulted in a "corporate benefit". Like its "cousin: common fund", corporate benefit is one of the doctrines that allows the court to award attorneys’  fees to…