After a successful result at trial, the Plaintiff’s attorney filed a Motion for Attorney’s Fees and Costs. The fees requested equated to $725.00 per hour for this Plaintiff’s attorney who had a background of having practiced for nearly thirty (30) years.
The defense raised objections to the hours reported by the Plaintiff’s attorney. The court largely disagreed with the defense’s objections and only reduced the request for attorney’s fees a bit.
On one of the objections, the court found that the Plaintiff’s attorney’s recording of a total of 16.5 hours working on a twenty-seven (27) page Complaint in which ten (10) federal and state civil causes of actions were asserted, which included legal research, meetings with client and review of other documents was not unreasonable or excessive.
With regards to the objection by the defense that the Plaintiff’s attorney claimed fourteen (14) hours of work preparing the Petition for Attorney’s Fees, the court reduced those hours by 50% to seven (7) hours.
According to the Opinion, the Plaintiff’s attorney’s paralegal was also awarded a total of $15,437.50 in fees, for 123.5 hours at an hourly rate of $125.00.
In so ruling on these attorney's fees and paralegal fees, the court referenced the fee schedule promulgated by Community Legal Services of Philadelphia.
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Source: Article – “Judge Awards Philadelphia Attorney $263,356.25 In Fees at $725.00 An Hour, Reduces Total Award for Erroneous Entries” By Riley Brennan. Pennsylvania Law Weekly (July 29, 2024).
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