In re A.W.E-M.

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• holding that the lodestar amount is “the product of reasonable hours times a reasonable rate”
• holding that Johnson factors that are subsumed in the calculation of the lodestar may not provide an independent basis for increasing the fee award
• holding that “[t]he ‘novelty [and] complexity of the issues’” should be “fully reflected” in a reasonable fee award
• concluding that the activities of the respondent’s attorneys were “crucial to the vindication of [the respondent’s] rights under the consent decree” and that “compensation for these activities was entirely proper”
• concluding that time spent in administrative proceedings is properly included in attorneys' fees calculations if the work is \useful and of a type ordinarily necessary\ to secure the final result obtained from the litigation
• holding that “actions” may include “administrative proceedings” and not be limited to “judicial actions”

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