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e. Miscellaneous Additional Adjustments
We have identified 10 additional time entries that are
either excessive in terms of attorney time or insufficiently
related to the appellate proceedings. The first category
includes an 8-hour charge for “Letters to Izen, Binder,
O’Donnell, Minns, Sticht” and a 1.5-hour charge for analysis of
the Court of Appeals’ amended Dixon V opinion, which contained no
substantive changes. Examples from the second category include
State-law research for an Alaskan client and a consultation with
attorney O’Donnell regarding efforts to reopen previously settled
cases in the wake of Dixon V. The resulting downward adjustments
amount to 17.75 hours of attorney time and 6.45 hours of
paralegal time.
3. Summary
The foregoing adjustments, coupled with our rejection of the
duplicate paralegal worksheet, amount to 69.46 hours of attorney
time and 135 hours of paralegal time. It follows that Jones and
his paralegal reasonably expended 74.41 hours (143.87 - 69.46)
and 75.5 hours (210.5 - 135), respectively.
E. Calculation of Lodestars
1. Izen Fee Request
a. 2000 and 2001
Izen’s time entries for 2000 and 2001 amount to 282.68
hours. We subtract 139.07 hours from that total to reflect the
adjustments discussed above that apply to 2000-2001 time entries.
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