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2. Additional Adjustments to Time Claimed for the
Appeals
a. Missing Minns Time Entries
Although Minns claims 577.42 hours of attorney and legal
assistant time for his firm (i.e., not including the Lawfinders
time) in the Hongsermeiers’ initial appellate fee request, the
accompanying time entries for Minns and his in-house staff cover
only 462.56 hours. Inasmuch as those time entries run only
through January 22, 2002, they do not cover the final preparation
of the brief (apparently mailed on January 25, 2002), the
preparation of the reply brief, or the oral argument.43 While we
are not inclined to provide Minns the opportunity to “prove up”
his firm’s undocumented efforts at this late date, we likewise
are not prepared to disregard those efforts altogether.
Accordingly, we shall credit Minns with the 66-hour block of time
he categorized as “preparing for and attending oral argument” in
his submission to the Court of Appeals and disallow the remaining
48.86 undocumented hours.44
43 We note that there is no corresponding break in the Bates
numbering of the documents accompanying the parties’ special
stipulation of facts (filed in this Court) regarding the
appellate fee requests.
44 Only 11.5 of those 48.86 hours are attributable to Minns;
the balance is attributable to his associate attorney and his
legal assistant.
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