Fine Foods, Inc. v. Dahlin

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• holding that, in deciding reasonableness of fees, courts must consider “the usual prices charged by other attorneys for similar services in the same vicinity and in the same court”
• “Determining what would be a reasonable fee in a particular matter is ordinarily a question of fact.”
• noting there is no fixed standard for determining a reasonable rate and listing factors to be considered, including prices charged by other attorneys for similar services and in the same vicinity
• rejecting an award of attorney's fees when plaintiff failed to introduce evidence of reasonableness, and observing that \[e]vidence of this sort was not available to the court in the instant case because none was admitted\
• noting there is no fixed standard for determining a reasonable rate and listing factors to be considered, including prices charged by other attorneys for similar services and in the same vicinity
• rejecting an award of attorney’s fees when plaintiff failed to introduce evidence of reasonableness, and observing that “[ejvidence of this sort was not available to the court in the instant case because none was admitted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).