Is a plaintiff entitled to an award of fees for the amount of time spent by an attorney representing Alpha in a personal injury case?

Alpha is entitled to "an award of fees for all time reasonably expended in pursuit of the ultimate result achieved in the same matter that an attorney traditionally is compensated by a fee-paying client for all time reasonably expended on a matter." Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 431 (1983) (quotation omitted). Alpha contends the attorneys' hours are reasonable because the issues in this case were complex; Alpha asserts that "it took three and a half years of getting the case to where it could be simplified to just [the breach of

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