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Mr. Jones filed a supplement and an additional supplement in
response to the Court's orders. Specifically, Mr. Jones executed
an affidavit stating that he generally charges his clients $200
per hour for his services and $80 per hour for paralegal services
and estimating that he and his paralegal expended approximately
4,500 hours on behalf of his clients (a group of 43 nontest case
petitioners) since June 10, 1992. Mr. Jones purportedly
increased the charges to his clients relative to the amount of
taxes they had in dispute. Mr. Jones provided the Court with a
schedule listing (by amount and date paid) the attorney's fees
and costs incurred between June 10, 1992 and August 15, 1999, by
the four nontest case petitioners on whose behalf he filed his
appearance in the evidentiary hearing, as well as the 39 other
nontest case petitioner-participants in Kersting tax shelter
programs. The schedule indicates that the Alversons, Baughmans,
Cerasolis, and McComases paid attorney's fees and costs totaling
$13,875, $12,450, $11,567, and $13,100, respectively, during the
period in question.
In a supplement to his motions, Mr. Izen stated that he had
charged his clients $150 per hour and that he had received
attorney's fees totaling $743,464.49 during the period June 1992
to September 1999. Mr. Izen further stated that petitioners had
incurred total attorney's fees of $1,196,706.19 during the period
in question and that such fees had been paid to a number of
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