California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mangine v. Steier, B219022, B222822 (Cal. App. 2011):
Plaintiff also complains that defense counsel's time records contained numerous redacted entries, "block billing" and "overreaching." In Martino v. Denevi (1986) 182 Cal.App.3d 553, on which plaintiff relies, the court noted that "[t]o enable the trial court to determine whether attorney fees should be awarded and in what amount, an attorney should present '(1) evidence, documentary and oral, of the services actually performed; and (2) expert opinion, by [the applicant] and other lawyers, as to what would be a
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