Can an attorney who fails to keep contemporaneous time records recover limited fees?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Marion S. Mishkin Law Office v. Lopalo, 767 F.3d 144 (2nd Cir. 2014):
Our Court has, however, allowed attorneys who failed to keep contemporaneous time records to recover limited fees for any contemporaneously documented time that [the attorney] was physically before the district court. Scott v. City of New York, 643 F.3d 56, 58 (2d Cir.2011) (Scott II ). Thus, entries in official court records (e.g. the docket, minute entries, and transcriptions of proceedings) may serve
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