Legal Opinion
Andrew S. Jacobs v. Anthony Mancuso, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 24, 1987No. 86-1817PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in a Section 1983 civil rights class action on behalf of plaintiffs’ counsel, whose sought lodestar figure was reduced by the court by some sixty percent. Counsel has been criticized by defendants for charging high rates for unimportant work, and at the same time for charging time for paralegals to become acquainted with the files. It is even claimed that for counsel to recover more than what paralegals “were actually paid ... would constitute a windfall to the law firm,” defendants apparently having never heard of Social Security taxes…
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