Finding that Brian Puricelli's courtroom work was "artful" in securing a $430,000 verdict in a civil rights suit, but that his written work was laden with typographical errors, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge has ruled that his court-awarded fees should be paid at two rates -- $300 per hour for the courtroom work, but $150 per hour for the pleadings. Judge Jacob P. Hart seemed almost amused as he described some of the writing as "nearly unintelligible."
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Judge Slashes Lawyer's Rate for Typos, Careless Writing
The Legal Intelligencer
February 25, 2004
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