squareandrabbet
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Yes, this is… excessive, haha.On December 21, 2021, Respondents’ counsel sent Mr. Depp’s counsel a letter requesting reimbursement for the $85,156.59 in fees and $1096.67 in costs now requested in Respondents’ Motion. Id. at ¶ 6; NYSCEF No. 99 at 5. The $85,156.59 of fees requested by Respondents consist of: (a) 38.7 hours billed by a “senior associate” at $799.50/hour (for a total of $30,940.65); (b) 78.60 hours billed by a “junior associate” at $500.20/hour (for a total of $39,315.72); (c) 17.10 hours billed by a “litigation support manager” at $336.20/hour (for a total of $5,749.02); and (d) 31 hours billed by a “litigation support analyst” at $295.2 (for a total of $9,151.20)
(Gulp! Now I see how attorneys fees reach into the millions.)
i have handled document production requests before as a simple legal secretary; and you can be certain that nobody billed for my time, lol.
basically what happens is, the IT department is tasked to run a search (I imagine “Amber” and “Depp” don’t take that much to find); and then some low level grunt (yours truly) prints them all out and looks them over. (They also didn’t bill for IT’s time.)
some attorney might take a couple hours to glance over them after listening to a verbal explanation of mine and - that’s it.
You’re not supposed to be editing what you get as a return of the search; and a discussion about permissible stuff to turn over between team members, should take a day at best.
they could have done it for $5,000, easily, start to finish.