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Bartholomew Roberts · March 23, 2011, 06:03 PM

Actually, I believe it was Gura who requested the pay records. The judge at first denied the request and has now required that the firms doing pro-bono work for D.C. - O’Melveny & Myers, Covington & Burling and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld - provide the standard rates for the lawyers who worked on the case.

The question is whether the $3.1 million Gura is requesting is unreasonable. Gura says that applying the standard billing rates of these firms lawyers will clearly show that his fee request is not at all unreasonable - and I suspect he is right in that regard.

March 23, 2011, 06:03 PM	#2
Bartholomew Roberts member Join Date: June 12, 2000 Location: Texas and Oklahoma area Posts: 8,462	Actually, I believe it was Gura who requested the pay records. The judge at first denied the request and has now required that the firms doing pro-bono work for D.C. - O’Melveny & Myers, Covington & Burling and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld - provide the standard rates for the lawyers who worked on the case. The question is whether the $3.1 million Gura is requesting is unreasonable. Gura says that applying the standard billing rates of these firms lawyers will clearly show that his fee request is not at all unreasonable - and I suspect he is right in that regard.