Tuesday, April 14, 2015
CLEMENT’S FEES SLASHED
Paul Clement, the former U.S. solicitor general who now is a partner at appellate firm Bancroft, had his hourly rates slashed by a New York federal district judge from $1,100 to $300 in an attorney fee award. Judge Mae D'Agostino of the Northern District of New York chopped by 77 percent a total fee request of $238,871 to $54,306, in a case in which Clement was among several attorneys representing Alfred Osterweil, who challenged the denial of his application for a handgun permit.
In Osterweil v. Bartlett, D'Agostino said the prevailing hourly rates for the Northern District are the appropriate guide for reasonable hourly attorney fees. "[Osterweil] does not identify what specific expertise or skills his attorneys possessed that attorneys within the Northern District of New York do not possess," she said. — Christine Simmons, New York Law Journal
Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202723205231/INADMISSIBLE-A-Response-to-Roberts-LawReview-Gripe#ixzz3XJC6a8wR
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