Mahani v. Edix Media Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• instructing courts to consider “the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client”
• listing “difficulty of the questions involved” and “the skill[s] requisite to perform the legal service properly” as factors relevant to reasonableness of a fee
• instructing courts to consider “the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar legal services” and “the experience, reputation, and ability of the lawyer or lawyers performing the services”
• noting “that it would be inequitable to deny [a party] the full amount of its attorneys’ fees and other expenses since [the opposing party] was responsible for inflating those fees and expenses”
• instructing courts to consider “the amount involved and the results obtained”
• reviewing fee award under an abuse of discretion standard and examining whether the trial court “failed to assess the reasonableness of the fees and expenses or that his determination that the fees and expenses were reasonable was capricious or arbitrary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).