Township Council Meeting — Agenda

MON L 002616-17 05/13/2019 Pg 11 of 11 Trans ID: LCV2019843985 Fifty-four (54) hours were billed rely on Mr. Se brief on the issue of waiver. The letter was not probative to waste countless hours to address a motion that was not relevant to the ultimate issues before the court. However, the number of hours billed for this task amounts to nearly seven full days of work. Twenty- one (21) hours for Ms. Lowy, and eight and one-tenth (8.1) hours for Mr. Cafferty should have been plenty of time to complete this task. Finally, over one hundred and twenty (120) hours were billed to complete the motion for reconsideration. The court acknowledges that this motion, like the motion to seal, was improvidently filed. However, the equivalent of three weeks to address this motion is excessive for an experienced group of attorneys. The court is confident that this task could have been accomplished in forty (40) hours by Ms. Lowy and twenty-five (25) hours by Mr. Cafferty. 4 For these reason fees are awarded in the amount of $85,665.13, and costs of $472.99. VII. For the above stated reasons, motion for reconsideration is denied. 4 Defendant complain motions that caused plaintiff to incur fees. The motion for reconsideration was simply a poor attempt to re-argue issues that were already decided, after affording the parties liberal opportunities decision, but the motion for reconsideration caused plaintiff to incur a significant amount of fees. The work performed on this motion amounts to nearly half of the fees awarded. 9 Pa041