LaRocca Estate

How courts have described this case

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• holding the award of attorney’s fees is “peculiarly within the discretion of the court of first instance”
• instructing courts determining fees to look at the character of services rendered, the importance of the litigation, and the result obtained
• “The allowance or disallowance of counsel fees rests generally in the judgment of the court of the first instance. . . .”
• \The facts and factors to be taken into consideration in determining the fee or compensation payable to an attorney include ... the amount of money or value of the property in question[.]\
• \reasonableness of the fee is a matter for the sound discretion of the lower Court and will be changed by an appellate Court only when there is a clear abuse of discretion.\
• \factors include ... the character of the services rendered\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).