Belfer v. Merling

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• recognizing that a contract A-4043-23 21 can permit recovery of reasonable attorneys' fees, but \any fee arrangement is subject to judicial review as to its reasonableness\
• finding that a complaint is frivolous when \it is not supported by credible evidence\
• holding an error in a judgment attributable to a party's miscalculation in failing to raise a setoff or A-1368-16T4 12 recoupment issue does not constitute a clerical mistake and must be amended under Rule 4:50-1
• \It is clearly within the equitable power of the court to consider and reduce excessive fees.\
• “[A]ny fee arrangement is subject to judicial review as to its reasonableness. . . . [E]xpenses can be scaled down by the court to reflect that the attorney’s efforts were expended in part on warrantless claims.”

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