Clemens v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Co.

MEMORANDUM

MALACHY E. MANNION, United States District Judge

Pending before the court is the plaintiffs counsels’ petition for attorneys’ fees, interest and costs brought pursuant to the provisions of 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 8371.1 (Doc. 215). In reviewing the petition, the plaintiffs counsel have apparently overlooked the fact that attorneys “are quasi-officers of the court and they are expected to be careful and scrupulously honest in their representations to the court.. .[they] must exercise care, judgment, and ethical sensitivity in the delicate task of billing time and excluding hours that are…