Sacardi v. Green Field Churrascaria, Inc.

1 Citing case

  1. Spence v. Ellis

    CV 07-5249 (TCP)(ARL) (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 19, 2012)   Cited 16 times
    Reducing hours in attorneys' fees application because the "substantial amount of block billing in the fee requests here renders it difficult to determine whether, and/or the extent to which the work done by plaintiff's attorneys is duplicative or unnecessary"

    Recent decisions from the Eastern District of New York have approved hourly fee rates in the range of $200 to $450 for partners, $100 to $300 per hour for associates, and $70 to $100 per hour for legal assistants. See Hugee, 852 F. Supp. 2d at 298-99 (internal quotation marks and citations omitted) (collecting cases); see Sacardi v. Green Field Churrascaria, Inc., No. 10 Civ. 5605, 2012 WL 4979195, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 17, 2012) (observing that "[o]verall, hourly rates for attorneys approved in recent Eastern District of New York cases have ranged from $200 to $350 for partners, $200 to $250 for senior associates, $100 to $150 for junior associates, and $70 to $80 for legal assistants"); Dowdell v. Imhof, No. 10-CV-1332 (SJF)(ARL), 2012 WL 959474, at *2-3 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 19, 2012) (observing courts in the Eastern District of New York have found hourly rates between $200 and $375 to be reasonable for partner-level attorneys, rates between $100 and $295 to be reasonable for associate-level attorneys, and rates between $70 and $80 to be reasonable for legal assistants, paralegals and interns, and awarding in a civil rights action an hourly rate of $375 for attorney practicing for 25 years or longer, and hourly rate of $350 for an attorney practicing close to 20 years given their level of experience, and an hourly rate of $150 for a junior associate admitted to the New York bar in 2010) (collecting cases); see als