Everett Hadix v. Perry Johnson

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• stating that the party moving for fees has the initial burden of showing entitlement to out-of-town rates
• explaining that reasonable fees are meant to guarantee litigants “competent counsel,” not the “best counsel in the country”
• explaining that one shortcut in determining the market rate is to look if the “attorney requesting fees has well-defined billing rates”
• explaining that a reasonable rate is one based on a market rate in the community for services rendered by attorneys of comparable skill, experience and reputation
• denying out-of-town rates because “[t]he record [was] devoid of any suggestion that local counsel made any attempt to investigate the availability of competent counsel in the local market”
• before considering whether out-of-town attorney rate is reasonable, courts must determine “whether hiring the out-of-town specialist was reasonable in the first instance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).