Correspondence from Kellogg to Kutcher; Summary of Plaintiffs' Fees and Costs; Graves v. Barnes Court Opinion

    LAW OFFICES OF 

QUIGLEY & SCHECKMAN 
631 ST. CHARLES AVENUE 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 

TELEPHONE: 504-524-0016 

WILLIAM P. QUIGLEY IN STEVEN SCHECKMAN ASSOCIATION WITH: 
R. JAMES KELLOGG 

MARK S. GOLDSTEIN 

RONALD J. PURSELL 

February 20, 1984 

Mr. Robert Kutcher 
624 Whitney Bank Bldg. 
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 

Re: Attorneys' Fees and Expenses 

Dear Bob: 

Please find enclosed various materials in support of plaintiffs’ 
request for attorneys' fees and costs. 

You should take note of the following: 

l. We have not included an itemization of hours and expenses for 
Gordon Henderson. I will forward it to you as soon as I have received 
it. 

2. We billed for hours for Armard perfner and Janice McCaughlin 
under Section I. Mr.Derfner is a nationally recognized expert in 
civil rights cases with some twenty (20) years experience in the area. 
Ms. McCaughlin was a law student at the time of her work. They both 
worked in connection with LDF. 

3. We have asked for a multiplier of two for attorneys' fees for 
Halpin, Guinier, Quigley, Scheckman and me. The enhancement is justi- 
fied based on the complexity of the case, and the extent to which we 
prevailed. As you know, this case was one of the seminal ones under 
amended §2 of the Voting Rights Act, and was apparently the first in 
history in which a refusal of the United States Attorney General to 
interpose an objection was reversed. The likelihood of success, 
viewed at the time of filing suit was remote; the case -- both legally 
and factually -- was complex; the number of hours of labor risked 

without guarantee of renumeration (over 2500 hours), and the amount 
of out-of-pocket expenses (over $40,000.00), were great; the prior 

expertise of counsel in this particular type of litigation was ex-  



Robert Kutcher 
Re: Major 
February 20, 1984 
Page Two 

ceptional; and the delay in receipt of payment will not be insigni- 
ficant. It is exactly these factors which the Fifth Circuit consi- 
dered as justifying an enhancement of two times in Graves v. Barnes, 

700 F.2d 220 (CA-5, 1983). 1t should be noted that Graves is a 
voting rights case, that Judge Politz was a judge on that panel and 
the recepient of the award was the Mexican-American Legal Defense 
Education Fund. A copy is enclosed for your convenience. 

  

I would appreciate hearing from you when you have had a chance 
to review there documents. 

Sincerely, 

no 

R.” James Kellogg 
RIK: mc 

Enclosures 

CC (with enclosure) 

Lani Guinier 
Stanley Halpin 
William Quigley 
Steven Scheckman 

 



DATE: February 20, 1984 

MAJOR V. TREEN 
  

SUMMARY OF PLAINTIFFS 
FEES AND COSTS 
  

  

ATTORNEYS AND LAW STUDENT 

A. Stanley Halpin 

573.25 hours at $150/hr . $171,975.00 

C. Lani Guinier 

682.90 hours at $135/hr 184,383.00 

R. James Kellogg 

510.20 hours at $135/hr : 137,754.00 

Steven Scheckman 

217.40 hours at $125/hr 54,350.00 

William P. Quigley 

478.33 hours at $125/hr 119,582.50 

Armand Derfner 

28.0 hours at $175/hr 4,900.00 

Janice McCaughin 

80.5 hours at $50/hr 4,025.00 

SUBTOTAL $676,969.50 
  

EXPERTS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE 

A. Richard Engstrom 

74.25 hours at $100/hr 7,425.00  



Joseph Logsdon 

32.00 hours at $100/hr 

Raphael Cassimere, Jr. 

34.00 hours at $100/hr 

Shirley Laska 

Mapmakers and Supplies 

Photographer 

SUBTOTAL 

DEPOSITIONS 

A, 

B. 

Cs 

Treen 

Hainkel 

Henderson 

Selle 

Logsdon 

Cassimere, Chehardy 

Lewis, Engstrom 

Morial 

SUBTOTAL 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES 

A. 

B. 

Ce 

D. 

Copies of Exhibits for Court 

Expenses of NAACP-IDF 

Express Mail 

Expenses of Halpin 

Expenses of Kellogg, Quiqly 4 ScHcckman 
{trip to D.C. and New York City) 

SUBTOTAL 

3,200.00 

3,400.00 

381.49 

3,500.00 

350.00 
  

$18,256.49 

356.40 

99.90 

161.90 

276.114 

70.00 

143.90 

128.30 

446.40 
$1,682.94 

555.00 

16,244.90 

400.00 

1,863.61 

1,200.00 
  

$20,263.51  



TOTALS 

1. ATTORNEYS AND LAW STUDENT 

EXPERTS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE 

DEPOSITIONS 

MISCELLANEOUS 

$676,969.50 

18,256.49 

1,682.94 

20,263.51   
$717,172.44 

 



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GRAVES v. BARNES 

Curtis GRAVES, et al., 
Plaintiffs-Appellees, 

Vv. 

Ben BARNES, et al., 
Defendants-Appellants. 

No. 81-1557. 

United States Court of Appeals, 
Fifth Circuit. 

March 17, 1983. 

Following conclusion of litigation in 
voting rights case, the United States Dis- 
trict Court for the Western District of Tex- 
as, William Wayne Justice, J., awarded at- 
torney fees to plaintiffs, and state appealed. 
The Court of Appeals, Thornberry, Circuit 
Judge, held that: (1) District Court did not 
abuse its discretion by both awarding fees 
based on present hourly rates and using 
contingency multiplier, and (2) District 
Court adequately compensated counsel for 
delay in payment by its use of present 
hourly rates in determining amount of lode- 
star. 

Affirmed as modified and remanded. 

1. Federal Courts e=830 

In awarding attorney fees, federal dis- 
trict court is empowered to exercise its in- 
formed discretion, and reviewing court will 
not disturb judgment of district court ab- 
sent showing of abuse of discretion. 

2. Federal Civil Procedure e=2737 

In arriving at appropriate award of 
attorney fees, federal district court is re- 
quired to explain findings and reasons upon 
which such award is based, including indica- 

700 Fld RAD (¢ 74 J $5 983) 

3078 

tion of how each of 12 factors set out in 
Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. 
affected its decision. 

3. Federal Civil Procedure &=2737 

Under “lodestar” method of calculating 
attorney fees, “lodestar” is equal to number 
of hours reasonably expended multiplied by 
prevailing hourly rate in community for 
similar work and lodestar is then adjusted 
to reflect other factors such as contingent 
nature of suit and quality of representation. 

See publication Words and Phrases 
for other judicial constructions and 
definitions. 

4. Federal Civil Procedure &=2737 

Under rubric of “the contingent nature 
of success”, federal district court in attor- 
ney fee proceeding should appraise profes- 
sional burden undertaken, that is, probabili- 
ty or likelihood of success, viewed at time of 
filing suit; court may increase amount es- 
tablished in computation of “lodestar” as 
reasonable fee on basis of careful evalua- 
tion of factors including analysis of plain- 
tiff’s burden, risks assumed in developing 
case and delay in receipt of payment for 
services rendered. 

5. Federal Civil Procedure ¢=2737 

Federal district court in attorney fee 
proceeding should not award contingency 
multiplier in every case; under appropriate 
circumstances, attorneys may be adequately 
compensated through reasonable calculation 
of lodestar. 

6. Federal Civil Procedure 2737 

Federal district court in attorney fee 
proceeding need not in determining multi- 
plier consider factor already included in cal- 
culation of lodestar. 

Synopsis, Syllabi and Key Number Classification COPYRIGHT ©) 1983 by WEST PUBLISHING CO 
The Synopsis, Syllabi and Key Number Classifi- 

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compensated through the reasonable calcu- 
lation of the lodestar.’ 

[6] Finally, we note that a court need 
not in determining the multiplier consider 
some factor already included in the calcula- 
tion of the lodestar. Thus, where “the lode- 
star itself is based on present hourly rates, 
rather than on the lesser rates applicable to 
the time period in which the services were 
rendered, the harm resulting from delay in 
payment may be reduced or largely elimina- 
ted.” Copeland, 641 F.2d at 893 n. 23 (em- 
phasis in original). See also Copper Liquor 
III, 684 F.2d at 1096 n. 26; E. Larson, 
Federal Court Awards of Attorney's Fees 
206-09 (1981), and cases cited therein. 

[7,8] Applying these principles to the 
present case, we conclude that the district 
court did not abuse its discretion by both 
awarding fees based on present hourly rates 
and using a contingency multiplier. Analy- 
sis of the district court’s stated reasons for 
applying the multiplier reveals that “delay 
in payment” did not figure in its calculus. 
The court based its award on the uncertain 
prospects of success on the merits, and re- 
lied upon the “protracted nature of this 
litigation” only to the extent that this “exa- 
cerbate[d] the tenuous nature of ultimate 
recovery.” The court also adequately com- 

5. The contingency multiplier is not without its 
critics. See Leubsdorf, The Contingency Fac- 
tor in Attorney Fee Awards, 90 Yale L.J. 473 
(1981), noted in Copper Liquor III, 684 F.2d at 
1097 n. 30. See also the dissenting opinions in 
Lindy II, 540 F.2d at 125, and Copeland, 641 

GRAVES v. BARNES 

pensated plaintiffs’ counsel for the delay in 
payment by its use of present hourly rates 
in determining the amount of the lodestar. 

We have reviewed the other arguments 

advanced by the State attacking the 
amount of the fee award. Having carefully 
examined the record, we conclude that the 
district court was not clearly erroneous in 
its findings of fact, and that its assessment 
of the total award due did not constitute an 
abuse of discretion. We note, however, 
that the court did make a minor error in its 
calculations. The district court specifically 
stated in its memorandum that the award 
for travel time was not subject to the con- 
tingency multiplier. However, in its calcu- 
lation of fee awards in Table 2, the court 
mistakenly multiplied the amount for travel 
time by a factor of two. Accordingly, we 
modify the judgment of the district court to 
correct for this error as follows: 

MALDEF and George Korbel $363,900.20 

Don Gladden $416,368.00 

As modified, the judgment of the district 
court is AFFIRMED. Finally, we note that 
MALDEF requested this court to award it 

attorney's fees for their work on this ap- 

peal. Since they have not submitted any 
affidavits in support of their claim, we RE- 
MAND this issue to the district court. 

F.2d at 917. We note, however, that one of the 
solutions proposed by Professor Leubsdorf in 
his article was a simple, across-the-board dou- 
bling of attorney's fee awards. 90 Yale L.J. at 
511-12. That is precisely what the district 
court did in this case. 

Adm. Office, U.S. Courts—West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minn.