How has the court considered "objective standard of reasonableness" in setting an attorney's fee?

The trial court's analysis in this case was consistent with the overall consideration for a Civil Code section 1717 attorney fees award, that is, an "objective standard of reasonableness, i.e., the prevailing market value of comparable legal services." (PLCM Group v. Drexler, supra, 22 Cal.4th at p. 1098.) PLCM emphasized, " ' "We do not want 'a [trial] court, in setting an attorney's fee, [to] become enmeshed in a meticulous analysis of every detailed facet of the professional representation. It . . . is not our intention that the inquiry into the adequacy of the fee assume massive proportions, perhaps dwarfing

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