Barker v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. Admin.

2 Citing cases

  1. Jacobs v. Wheaton Van Lines Inc.

    No. CV-20-01752-PHX-DLR (D. Ariz. Mar. 2, 2021)

    "[T]he Court will not second-guess the amount of time Plaintiff's counsel spent on briefing the winning arguments in this case." Barker v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. Admin., No. CV-18-08136-PCT-DWL, 2019 WL 6893013, *4 (D. Ariz. Dec. 18, 2019). "By and large, the court should defer to the winning lawyer's professional judgment as to how much time he was required to spend on the case; after all, he won, and might not have, had he been more of a slacker."

  2. Garcia v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. Admin.

    No. CV-20-00088-PHX-DLR (D. Ariz. Feb. 2, 2021)   Cited 1 times

    However, "the Court will not second-guess the amount of time Plaintiff's counsel spent on briefing the winning arguments in this case." Barker v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. Admin., No. CV-18-08136-PCT-DWL, 2019 WL 6893013, *4 (D. Ariz. Dec. 18, 2019). "By and large, the court should defer to the winning lawyer's professional judgment as to how much time he was required to spend on the case; after all, he won, and might not have, had he been more of a slacker."