Legal Opinion
Marion S. Mishkin Law Office v. Lopalo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 26, 2014No. Docket No. 13-2699-cvPublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POOLER, Circuit Judge:
The Marion S. Mishkin Law Office (“Mishkin”) appeals from the June 11, 2013 order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Alvin R. Hellerstein, J.) denying an award of attorneys’ fees for services performed as plaintiffs’ liaison counsel in the bodily injury, non-respiratory cases arising out of the events of September 11, 2001. The district court, while acknowledging Mish-kin should receive a fee for her work as liaison counsel, denied her any fee after finding her fee application inflated and unsubstantiated by contemporaneously kept…
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