Serrao v. Slope Stor.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that before fees may be awarded, court must have “contemporaneous time records” that “specify, for each attorney, the date, the hours expended, and the nature of the work done”
• holding that it is “a mandatory requirement” for “any attorney . . . who applies for court-ordered compensation in this Circuit” to “document the application with contemporaneous time records”
• holding that it is “a mandatory requirement” for “any attorney . . . who applies for court-ordered compensation in this Circuit” to “document the application with contemporaneous time records”
• holding that a plaintiff must present contemporaneous time records that indicate, “for each attorney, the date, the hours expended, and the nature of the work done” to be awarded attorney’s fees and costs
• holding that applications for court-ordered attorneys’ fees require documentation with contemporaneous time records
• concluding that inadequate timekeeping may justify “trimming [the] fat” from a fee application

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).