A relator's bid to recover legal fees has prompted a D.C. federal district judge to issue an opinion lambasting amounts charged by WilmerHale and Wiley Rein. In addition to slashing fees from the requested $20 million to about $7.5 million, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth dismissed the idea that because some WilmerHale associates performed beyond their pay grade, they should be compensated at a rate that identifies their "superior skill levels."
August 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A relator’s attempt to recover legal fees has prompted Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to issue an opinion lambasting amounts charged by WilmerHale and Wiley Rein, and attaching 74 pages of appendices outlining their billing rates — and reductions the court is making to them.
Lamberth slashed the fees from the $20 million requested by plaintiff Richard Miller to a little more than $7.5 million.
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