What is the lodestar method used by courts to determine a plaintiff's attorney fees?
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The following excerpt is from Cavazos v. Salas Concrete, Inc., Case No.: 1:19-CV-00062-DAD-EPG (E.D. Cal. 2020):
With the lodestar method, the court multiples the number of hours the prevailing party reasonably spent litigating the case by a reasonable hourly rate for counsel. Bluetooth, 654 F.3d at 941. The product of this computation, the "lodestar" amount, yields a presumptively reasonable fee. See Gonzalez v. City of Maywood, 729 F.3d 1196, 1202 (9th Cir. 2013).
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