California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Lorenzen v. Vt. Rest., B219625 (Cal. App. 2011):
attorneys." The trial court, therefore, used the time records of plaintiffs' attorneys as the starting point for its lodestar determination. (Ketchum v. Moses, supra, 24 Cal.4th at pp. 1132-1133.) It is presumed that the trial court followed the applicable law and applied the loadstar method (Evid. Code, 664), and the trial court's fee determination "'"will not be disturbed unless the appellate court is convinced that it is clearly wrong."'" (Ketchum, supra, 24 Cal.4th at p. 1132; accord, In re Marriage of Zimmerman, supra, 16 Cal.App.4th at pp. 561-562.) We are not convinced that the trial court was clearly wrong in determining the reasonable fees for prosecuting the entire case.
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