The place I worked had many blacks who, would refer to each other as “nigger” when talking to each other.

You mean I could have sued on the grounds of this promoting racial disharmony in the department?

DUH!!!! What a dummy I am! Too late now. Or mabey these disturbing events have had long term mental effects on me and I can still sue.

{PLEASE… NO LAWYERS NEED INQUIRE!!!}

Rick

The plaintiff’s attorney(s) would have had had to file that information (hours, description of services and rates) as part of their motion for payment of fees, which most certainly was opposed by the town. I’d bet that the amount sought was considerably more than $600K, but $600K was the amount the court found to be “reasonable”. There could well have been more than one attorney in a firm billing time to the case, some of whom have very hefty hourly rates (e.g. $375/hour).

A full-time work year is 2,080 hours. You really think someone was on this almost half-time for over five years? My guess is that the total “billable” hours in this case were somewhere around 1,000.

Jim, would that be part of the record in the case, or do lawerly types stick together to keep their real rates quiet?