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finding hourly rates of $325 for attorney with 20 years of experience, $300 for attorney with 10 years of experience, and $275 for attorney with 7 years of experience to be reasonable
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CIVIL ACTION NO: 14-424 SECTION: J(3)
06-02-2015
ENVEN ENERGY VENTURES, LLC v. BLACK ELK ENERGY OFFSHORE OPERATIONS, LLC
ORDER
The Court, having considered Plaintiff EnVen Energy Ventures, LLC's Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Costs (Rec. Doc. 61), the record, the applicable law, the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Knowles (Rec. Doc. 63), and Defendant Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC's lack of opposition to Plaintiff's motion and lack of objections to Magistrate Judge Knowles's Report and Recommendation, hereby approves the Report and Recommendation of Judge Knowles and adopts it as its opinion in this matter. Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that the Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Costs is hereby GRANTED. Plaintiff is entitled to an award of attorneys' fees and costs in the amount of $124,787.83.
New Orleans, Louisiana, this 2nd day of June, 2015.
/s/_________
CARL J. BARBIER
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE