What is the burden of establishing that a lawyer's fees are commensurate with those prevailing in the community?
The following excerpt is from Salgado v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., Case No.: 1:17-cv-0339-JLT (E.D. Cal. 2020):
The fee applicant bears a burden to establish that the requested rates are commensurate "with those prevailing in the community for similar services by lawyers of reasonably comparable skill, experience, and reputation." Blum, 465 U.S. at 895 n.11. The applicant meets this burden by "produc[ing] satisfactory evidencein addition to the attorney's own affidavitsthat the requested rates are in line with those prevailing in the community for similar services by lawyers of reasonably comparable skill, experience and reputation." Blum, 465 U.S. at 896 n.11; see also Chaudhry v. City of
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