Mayer Brown’s request to recover about $126,000 in attorney fees in a landlord-tenant case received a blistering response from a Manhattan judge, who lambasted the firm’s billing records as showing a “stunningly inordinate amount of time” on simple tasks.
“The court will not countenance the gross overreaching evidenced under the facts and circumstances of this case in which the client is not even being billed for legal services. To move any court to put its imprimatur of approval on such practices is simply intolerable,” Manhattan Civil Court Judge Frank Nervo (See Profile) said this week in Clozel v. Jalisi, 11227/12, denying any fee award to Mayer Brown.
