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Donald Trump's attorneys denied any fraud. | AP Photo Details of $25 million Trump U. settlement filed

Lawyers filed details Monday evening of the $25 million settlement President-elect Donald Trump agreed to last month in an effort to resolve three pending lawsuits over his Trump University real estate seminar program.

The settlement submitted to a federal court in San Diego indicates that Trump is personally guaranteeing that the $25 million will be handed over to plaintiffs' lawyers by Jan. 18, 2017, two days before he is scheduled to be sworn in as president. The deal scuttled the bizarre possibility of Trump facing a civil class-action fraud trial as he waited to assume the nation's highest office.

In a joint motion, lawyers backing the federal class-action suits and those representing Trump in the cases asked U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel to give preliminary approval to the settlement.

"By any metric, this is a fair, adequate, and reasonable settlement," the attorneys wrote. The deal is expected to offer refunds of about 50 percent of the fees paid by Trump University participants, who typically paid about $1,500 for a three-day seminar or up to $35,000 for a mentorship program. (Under the deal, students who previously received refunds will get reduced payments or none at all.)

The suits alleged that the real estate training program was deceptively marketed, including by asserting that instructors were hand-picked by Trump when he did not actually know them and by claiming that the seminars were educational programs on par with prestigious universities.

Trump's attorneys denied any fraud, arguing that any inflated boasts about Trump University were, at worst, the kind of sales "puffery" that courts have found not to be legally actionable. In the proposed settlement, Trump and Trump University do not admit any wrongdoing.

"While Plaintiffs are confident in the strength of their class claims, Defendants were confident in their defenses. Plaintiffs acknowledge the risk that they would be unable to obtain a jury verdict against Defendants, and TU’s financial condition meant collecting any judgment against it would be difficult," the attorneys for both sides wrote.

Of the $25 million, $4 million is to be set aside for settlement of a parallel state lawsuit brought in New York by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Sometimes lawyers fees becomes a point of contention in approval of class-action settlements, but that seems unlikely here since the plaintiffs' lawyers agreed to waive their fees and even to absorb costs they already incurred in litigating the case.

If Curiel grants preliminary approval to the deal, formal notices of the settlement will be sent to class members. They will have a chance to object to the settlement as unfair, but the way the deal is currently framed, class members who have not previously opted out of participation in the cases will not have a new chance to withdraw from the settlement.

The provision limiting so-called "opt outs" reduces the chance that Trump could face continued litigation over Trump University, but it doesn't eliminate that prospect altogether. A total of 13 people claiming to be class members were excluded from the cases at their request and could still seek to bring separate suits on their own, if their cases can meet hurdles needed to pursue them in court.