What is the standard practice of professional professionals submitting fee applications to the court for attorney fees?

The standard practice of professionals submitting fee applications should be to "make a good faith effort to exclude from a fee request hours that are excessive, redundant or otherwise unnecessary; just as a lawyer in private practice ethically is obligated to exclude such hours from his fee submission." Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 434, 103 S.Ct. 1933, 1939-40, 76 L.Ed.2d 40 (1983) (discussing billing practice in context of statutory attorney fees). This exercise of "billing judgment" is an essential, and as noted above, ethically mandated, component of every fee application submitted to the court.