Smith v. Leake

How courts have described this case

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

• reducing block-billed and vague 25 hours by 20% based on a report by the California State Bar’s Committee on Mandatory Fee 26 Arbitration that block-billing may increase time by 10% to 30%
• finding inappropriate block 20 21 billing where there were “numerous” billings bearing the vague description “case mngmt,” 22 leading the court to order a twenty percent reduction in those vaguely described, block-billed 23 hours
• “[I]t is not uncommon for complex litigation to 2 require and necessitate multiple attorneys at each deposition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).