Murphy's Fee Award
March 19, 2008
This is old news, but we just heard it and thought we'd pass it along. After remittitur in Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, the plaintiffs moved for $1.5 million in attorney's fees for the law professors and law students' time. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne Bouliane reduced the attorney's proposed hourly rates from $525 to $425 and reduced the law students' rate from $125 to $90, and applied a lodestar multiplier of 1.8. She cut 70 hours from one attorney's total, and 12 hours from lead trial counsel's total. The final bill: although it was a lot, we're betting that it was significantly less than Seyfarth Shaw charged the defendant for its work.
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