Page 1 of 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ____________________________________ ANDREW ROSA, 11 Civ. 2942 (LBS) GABY DAY, 11 Civ. 2956 (LBS) MIRSAD ISUFI, 11 Civ. 4159 (LBS) ALLEN RUBIN, 11 Civ. 4160 (LBS) PLAINTIFFS vs THE CITY OF NEW YORK, a municipal entity, et al., DEFENDANTS _____________________________________ DECLARATION OF JEFFREY A. ROTHMAN IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND OTHER DISCRETIONARY COSTS PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. § 1988 AND FED.R.CIV.P. 54(d)(2) JEFFREY A. ROTHMAN, declares, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746 and under penalty of perjury, as follows: 1. I, along with James I. Meyerson, represent the plaintiffs in these four related actions. As such, I am fully familiar with the facts and circumstances concerning the prosecution of this action. I respectfully submit this declaration in support of plaintiffs’ application, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d), for an order awarding plaintiffs attorneys’ fees and costs as the prevailing party in this litigation. 2. Mr. Meyerson and I made efforts to avoid redundant work in this matter. Mr. Meyerson dealt primarily with the fact and damages circumstances particular to Plaintiffs Rosa and Day, and I dealt primarily with the fact and damages circumstances particular to Plaintiffs Isufi and Rubin. Case 1:11-cv-02942-LBS Document 14 Filed 06/08/12 Page 1 of 32
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ____________________________________ ANDREW ROSA, 11 Civ. 2942 (LBS) GABY DAY, 11 Civ. 2956 (LBS) MIRSAD ISUFI, 11 Civ. 4159 (LBS) ALLEN RUBIN, 11 Civ. 4160 (LBS) PLAINTIFFS vs THE CITY OF NEW YORK, a municipal entity, et al., DEFENDANTS _____________________________________
DECLARATION OF JEFFREY A. ROTHMAN IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND OTHER DISCRETIONARY COSTS PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. § 1988 AND FED.R.CIV.P. 54(d)(2)
JEFFREY A. ROTHMAN, declares, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746 and under penalty of
perjury, as follows:
1. I, along with James I. Meyerson, represent the plaintiffs in these four related
actions. As such, I am fully familiar with the facts and circumstances concerning the prosecution
of this action. I respectfully submit this declaration in support of plaintiffs’ application, pursuant
to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d), for an order awarding plaintiffs attorneys’ fees and
costs as the prevailing party in this litigation.
2. Mr. Meyerson and I made efforts to avoid redundant work in this matter. Mr.
Meyerson dealt primarily with the fact and damages circumstances particular to Plaintiffs Rosa
and Day, and I dealt primarily with the fact and damages circumstances particular to Plaintiffs
Isufi and Rubin.
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3. For example, only one of us - myself - spent the large amount of time necessary to
read through the transcript of the criminal trial of two of the dancers who were also arrested as
part of the same mass arrest of the Plaintiffs at the Hot Lap Dance club. With information
garnered from these transcripts, Mr. Meyerson and I were able to determine who should be
named as defendants in these actions, and we were able to make important factual allegations
and legal claims concerning the impropriety of the NYPD’s investigative activities, and arrests
and prosecutions, in these cases.
4. Despite our attempts to avoid redundant work, some overlap was of course
necessary so that we both were apprised of the important factual and procedural matters that
affected the litigation of the case.
5. It was also necessary for us to exchange drafts of documents, such as pleadings
and discovery requests, and to collaboratively edit each others’ work, which enabled us to both
be up to speed on the essential facts and procedural circumstances of the case, and to create an
optimal final product.
6. Mr. Meyerson’s Declaration, which is respectfully incorporated herein by
reference, also sets forth a description of our work together on this case.
7. A major problem in the litigation of this case was counsel for Defendants’
unwillingness to do anything. It took repeated requests - including requests for court
intervention, and telephone conferences with the court – to get materials, such as Defendants’
answers and responses to discovery requests, that should have been produced as a matter of
course.
8. Indeed, despite counsel for Defendants’ expression of his desire to negotiate the
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amount of our fees and costs, and his statement to the Court during our telephone conference on
May 16, 2012 that he needed a week’s time from provision of our time and expense sheets to
then substantively discuss settlement of our fees and costs - and despite our provision of our time
and expense sheets to him on May 21, 2012, and his promises to me in subsequent telephone
conversations that he would promptly see authority to settle the fees and costs - no offer of any
kind has been made, thus necessitating the instant fee and cost application.
ATTORNEY BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
9. I am a solo practitioner, concentrating in the area of civil rights litigation, mostly
involving claims of police misconduct. My office is located at 315 Broadway, Suite 200, New
York, NY 10007. I have operated my own solo civil rights practice since 2004. Prior to that I
worked for a year in New York City for Michael Spiegel, Esq., also doing primarily police
misconduct litigation and related civil rights work, and criminal defense work. Prior to that I
worked for the Defender Association of Philadelphia, representing indigent defendants in
criminal cases. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2001, where I
was a research assistant for Professor David Rudovsky, one of leading police misconduct
practitioners in the country and a co-author of Michael Avery, David Rudovsky & Karen Blum,
Police Misconduct: Law & Litigation, one of the leading treatises in the field. During my second
summer of law school, in 2000, I worked as a summer associate for the Law Office of Ronald L.
Kuby, assisting primarily with police misconduct matters. See, June 6, 2012 Declaration of
Ronald L. Kuby, Esq., annexed hereto as Exhibit A.
10. I am a member of the bars of the State of New York, the State of Pennsylvania
(inactive status), the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern
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Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
11. I am or have been counsel for the plaintiff or plaintiffs in 87 civil rights cases in
this district, most of which center upon claims of police misconduct. When potential plaintiffs
come to me with police misconduct matters raising complex issues or difficult facts that would
deter many lawyers from accepting the case, but where I believe that there has been a
deprivation of rights in need of redress, I will in many circumstances take the case where other
lawyers might decline. This has led me to become involved in police and other governmental
misconduct cases involving significant complexity, through which I have developed
considerable sophistication and skill in the field of police / governmental misconduct litigation.
A decision in one of my cases, Forbes v. City of New York, et al., 05 Civ. 7331 (NRB), 2008
WL 3539936 (2008), addressing the issue of state action by private parties, was discussed in the
New York Law Journal as one of two significant, then-recent cases that “illustrate a significant
option for enforcing constitutional rights against nongovernmental actors.” Applying
Constitutional Obligations To Private Actors, by Christopher Dunn, Esq., 4/28/2009 N.Y.L.J. at
page 3 (2009). That action settled on confidential terms.
12. I have been one of the lead attorneys in the ongoing complex consolidated
litigation stemming from the mass arrests by the NYPD during the 2004 Republican National
Convention (RNC), that has generated a number of important decisions in the police misconduct
field, and which web of related and consolidated cases remain pending before Judge Sullivan and
Magistrate Judge Francis.
13. Within the past few years I have also been heavily litigating, as lead counsel, a
putative class action against the New York State Division of Parole and the New York State
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Department of Correctional Services on behalf of a putative class of returned parole violators
whose concurrent sentences were unconstitutionally transformed into consecutive sentences,
resulting in their being held past their lawful maximum expiration dates in prison. That action has
generated two important decisions holding that the defendants violated the constitutional rights of
thousands of returned parole violators. See, e.g., Sudler v. Goord / Batthany v. Horn, 2010 WL
4273277 (S.D.N.Y. October 6, 2010)(Peck, M.J.); See also, Sudler v. Goord / Batthany v. Horn,
2011 WL 691239 (S.D.N.Y. February 23, 2011)(Daniels, J.). Those cases are presently pending
before the Second Circuit on the question of the defendants’ qualified immunity. See also, the
Declaration of Matthew D. Brinkerhoff, Esq., annexed hereto as Exhibit B.
14. In a number of the civil rights cases in which I have co-counsel (including some
who have practiced for decades), I am lead counsel. In these matters, my colleagues entrust me to
serve as lead counsel because they know that I have attained considerable skill and experience in
the field of police / governmental misconduct litigation, and that I approach these matters
zealously and diligently. See, e.g., the Declarations of Ronald Kuby, Esq. and Matthew D.
Brinkerhoff, Esq., annexed hereto as Exhibits A and B, respectively.
15. Civil rights cases are all inherently risky endeavors, and involve arcane issues of
law and law-enforcement practices. “Congress recognized that civil rights litigation is a
specialized and complex field. For this reason, the amount of the fees awarded in a civil rights
case should be governed by ‘the same standards which prevail in other types of equally complex
federal litigation, such as antitrust cases’.” Michael Avery, David Rudovsky & Karen Blum,
Police Misconduct: Law & Litigation, § 14:7 (3d ed.), quoting S. Rep. 6.
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16. As a result of this specialization, and the expertise I have developed in this field, I
am routinely contacted by my colleagues seeking advice on how to prosecute police misconduct
cases. I am an active member of the National Police Accountability Project (NPAP), an
organization of over 400 plaintiffs’ attorneys across the country who work on police misconduct
cases, and which provides training and support for attorneys and other legal workers, as well as
public education and information on issues related to police misconduct and accountability. On
January 21, 2011, I was a presenter at an NPAP CLE as part of a panel discussion entitled “The
Public as ‘Client’ in Police Misconduct Litigation,” and I have been asked to - and will be -
again presenting at NPAP’s upcoming CLE, to be held on June 29, 2012. The topic I will be
presenting on at this summer’s CLE is “Discovery Issues, including Electronic Discovery and
Protective Orders.”
17. I am also a member of the Advisory Board of the New York City Policing
Roundtable (NYCPR), a non-profit organization of over 70 members that nurtures relationships
between civil rights and public interest attorneys, community organizers, advocates, policy
analysts, academics, and others who work to end police misconduct in New York City, and
which provides legal training and technical support, and advocates for systemic reforms.
18. The people I represent in civil rights cases cannot afford the services of a lawyer
on an hourly basis. Almost none can make more than a small contribution to litigation expenses.
I take civil rights cases on a contingency basis, and I am compensated based on a portion of any
judgment or settlement, or through the payment of fees by the defendants.
19. Because the inherent risk in any police misconduct case is high, and because of
the risk that any civil rights case can become protracted with multiple, time and expense
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consuming layers of substantive and procedural complexity, civil rights lawyers like myself
depend on the availability of a full lodestar recovery in the event that we do prevail.
HOURS EXPENDED AND APPLICABLE RATE
20. I have to the date of the acceptance of Defendants’ Rule 68 offer spent 83.7 total
hours of work on this matter. At my hourly rate of $475 per hour, my lodestar is $39,757.50. I
also seek out of pocket expenses in the amount of $840.45. See, the undersigned’s time and
expense sheets, annexed hereto as Exhibit C.
21. Plaintiffs’ counsel should therefore be awarded our full lodestar by this Court.
Mr. Meyerson and myself worked hard on this case, and developed it well and pressed it
diligently. Any reduction in hours beyond that would be unjust and contrary to the principles
underlying 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
22. As referenced above, annexed hereto in support of my hourly rates are the June 6,
2012 Declaration of Ronald L. Kuby, annexed hereto as Exhibit A and the June 6, 2012
Declaration of Matthew D. Brinkerhoff, annexed hereto as Exhibit B. In addition to these
statements by my colleagues as to the reasonableness of my rates, $475 per hour is the actual rate
that I am paid by privately paying clients who wish to retain me for criminal defense or other
work (see, e.g., Kuby Declaration annexed hereto as Exhibit A).
23. In further support of our rates, annexed hereto as Exhibit D please find the
National Law Journal’s December 19, 2011 “nationwide sampling of law firm billing rates” and
certain firms’ “report [of] their billing rates by associate class,” which indicate that associates,
with similar or less experience than I command more than my hourly rate in many New York
City firms [e.g., a 5th year associate at DLA Piper billed at $520, and partners billed as high as
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$1,120; at Epstein Becker & Green associates billed as high as $550, and partners billed as high
as $850; at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto an 8th year associate billed at $420, and partners
billed as high as $730 per hour; at Hughes Hubbard & Reed a third year associate billed at $510,
and partners billed as high as $990; at Kaye Scholer a third year associate billed at $475, and
partners billed as high as $1,080; at Kelley Drye & Warren an eigth year associate billed at
$500, and partners billed as high as $925; at Schulte, Roth, & Zabel a third year associate billed
at $515, and partners billed as high as $935. As I am a solo practitioner and often act as lead
counsel, and take on myself the economic risk (in terms of the expenditure of both time and
money) of civil rights cases, compared against these significantly higher rates enumerated above,
my rates are certainly within a reasonable range of rates for lawyers of like skill and experience.
24. By Report and Recommendation dated March 9, 2010 it was determined by
Magistrate Judge Dolinger that my work done in calendar year 2009 be compensated at the rate
of $350 per hour (when my rate was actually $400 per hour). That rate was endorsed by Judge
Victor Marrero in his Decision and Order dated March 25, 2010. See, Tucker v. City of New
York, et al., 704 F.Supp.2d 347, 361 (S.D.N.Y. 2010). On January 1, 2011 I raised my rate from
$400 to $475, and it has remained at that rate until the present.
25. The fees and costs set forth herein do not include those for work done on this fee
application, which was rendered necessary by counsel for Defendants’ failure to make any offer
at all concerning our fees and costs, despite repeated invitations and exhortations to him to do so,
and despite the transmittal of our billing records to him on May 21, 2012. Our cover letter to
Mr. Pollack of May 21, 2012 – providing him with our time and expense sheets – is annexed
hereto as Exhibit E. Plaintiffs will supplement their request for fees and costs to reflect all work
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done on this fee and cost application along with the submission of their reply papers, once the
amount of work expended on this matter is completed.
Dated: New York, New York June 7, 2012 Respectfully submitted,
__/S/ Jeffrey A. Rothman_____
JEFFREY A. ROTHMAN, Esq. 315 Broadway, Suite 200 New York, NY 10007 Tel.: 212 - 227 – 2980 Attorney for Plaintiff
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Exhibit A
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
DECLARATION OF RONALD L. KUBY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES AND OTHER DISCRETIONARY COSTS PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. § 1988 AND FED.R.CIV.P. 54(d)(2)
RONALD L. KUBY, declares, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746 and under penalty of
perjury, as follows:
1. I respectfully submit this declaration in support of plaintiffs' application, pursuant
to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d)(2), for an order awarding plaintiffs' counsel
attorneys' fees as the prevailing party in this litigation.
2. I am the principal of a small law office located at 119 West 23rd Street, Suite 900,
New York, NY 10011.
3. I graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1983. Thereafter I worked with the late
William Kunstler, from 1983 untill995. From 1995 to present I have mostly operated a solo
practice, and for a few of those years was in partnership with Daniel Perez, Esq.
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4. My practice concentrates in the areas of criminal defense and civil rights
litigation. During the course of my career I, along with lawyers working with me, have
represented individuals in a number of high profile cases, including individuals accused of
bombing the World Trade Center; Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Railroad gunman; renowned
12/31/10 .5 Met with JIM and referring attorney to discuss case and get files
2.0 Reviewed files re arrestees, and email to JIM and referring attorney
2/14/11 1.5 Met with referring attorney at his office and partial file revtew
3/4/11 .5 Spoke to AI Rubin and tried other arrestee #s; further review of files and email to referring attorney and JIM
3/6/11 .3 Emails with JIM re the case 3/7/11 .4 Reviewed and emailed Rosa's materials to JIM
2.5 Review of file materials and emails with JIM re Rosa and Day.
.3 Email to Isufi; and message from him and spoke with him 1.5 Edits to JIM draft Rosa complaint
3/8/11 .2 Call from other attorney re Asian and Johansson 2.0 Met with AI Rubin - intake
3/10/11 1.8 Review of crim court records, and the warrants and warrant apps; emails to JIM re Day
3/11/11 .2 Email of releases to Rubin .3 Emails with JIM and with Gaby Day
3/13/11 6.5 Review ofDD 5s; scanned DD 5s re Day, re higher ups involved in raid planning; re other ones of note; and emailed to JIM with explanatory email
3/14/11 .7 Review of file documents, and emailed to JIM; spoke to JIM re other arrestees
.1 Email with JIM 3/16/11 .4 Work re complaint allegations and defendants
3.2 Met with Mirsad lsufi - intake and releases .3 Further emails with JIM re Day and Rosa; email with Isufi
4/28/11 5.0 Review of first 1/2 of criminal court tnscpt ofMalandri and
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Rodriguez, made notes 4/29/11 8.5 Finished review of transcript; final edits to Rosa and Day
complaints and emails and talks with JIM 4/30/11 .1 Email with JIM 5/2/11 .3 Talk with JIM re assignment of Judge Sand and MJ Katz in
Rosa, and review of the statement of relatedness in Day 5/6/11 .2 Emails with JIM
6/2/11 .I Emails with JIM 6/3/11 .3 Review of JIM draft initial disclosures in Rosa and Day,
and emails with him re initial disclosures 6/12/11 5.0 Reviewed files and drafted Isufi and Rubin complaints;
tried to reach Isufi and spoke with Rubin 6/13/11 .5 Went to crim court and obtained Rubin information
.2 Call and email to Rubin
.2 Text and letter to Isufi 6/16/11 .3 Spoke with Isufi
1.0 Made summonses and civil cover sheets; printed and copied complaints and statements of relatedness in Isufi and Rubin and prepared for filing
6/17/11 .2 Filed Rubin and Isufi complaints at the clerk .2 Made pdfs of the complaints and related case statements,
and emailed to case openings .6 Organized service addresses, and email to JIM
6/20/11 .3 Emails from JIM to ACC Richards; emailed PDF of Isufi and Rubin complaints to Richards, and request for Braille and Conroy service addresses; emails with Richards and JIM re service issues
6/23/11 .2 Received Notices of Assignments in Isufi and Rubin, and emailed to opposing counsel
6/26/11 .4 Spoke with other arrestee .4 Email with other arrestee
6/27/11 .6 Work re follow-up svce by mail upon Costello, Koch, Kong, and UC 293, and re proofs of svce on them and on the City; notarized intern proofs of svce and e-filed.
7/14/11 .2 Talk to JIM re svce on Braille and Conroy, andre initial disclosures
.2 Read emails btwn JIM and ACC re svce address for Braille and Conroy
7/15/11 .2 Review of emails btwn JIM and ACC Richards re svce addresses for Conroy and Braille, and emails with JIM
.1 Review of ACC Pollack letters to J in Isufi and Rubin for ext to answer
.2 Review of JIM's initial disclosures in Rosa and Day 7/18/11 .1 Correspondence with JIM re svce on Conroy and Braille
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8/411 I .2 Emails btwn JIM and law dept re service location for Braille
8/25/11 1.2 Prepared svce on Braille and Conroy in Isufi and Rubin for
8/26/11 .5 svce at 1 PP and for follow-up mailing Served Braille at 1 PP Legal Division in Isufi and Rubin
.3 Issues trying to serve Conroy at OCCB - no longer there; _got new address at School Safety in LIC
.3 Made new summonses for Conroy at School Safety, and _gave to J>rocess server in Isufi and Rubin
.3 Made proofs of service for Braille in Isufi and Rubin, made pdfs, and e-filed via ECF
.1 Email to ACC Richards and Pollack re Conroy service issue
9/12/11 .2 Call from process server, and email to ACCs re Conroy servtce
.2 Talk to JIM 9/14/11 .2 Emails with JIM I Pollack 9/15/12 .2 Emails with JIM 9/19/11 .1 Talk to Rubin
.1 Tried to call and email to Isufi 9/20/11 .1 Spoke with JIM
.2 Email to Gaby Day 9/22/I 1 . I Emails with Gaby Day
.1 Email to Pollack and Richard with settlement demand I 0/1/11 .1 Email with JIM 10/3/11 .1 Talk to JIM I0/4/11 .1 Read JIM email to Pollack re their discussion
.2 Talk with JIM I0/11/11 .3 Calls with JIM and with ACC Pollack re service on Conroy
and case status
.1 Email with JIM 10/14/11 .6 Call with process server re Conroy svce; emails to ACCs re
svce on Conroy; scanned prfs of svce on Conroy in Isufi and Rubin and e-filed
I0/17/11 .1 Call from JIM re writing J Sand .1 Read JIM letter to J Sand re having a conference
10/18/11 .3 Received Ds' answer in Day; read JIM email to Pollack; email to JIM
.2 Call from JIM 10/21/11 .2 Emails with Isufi 10/24/11 .2 Talks with JIM 11/2/11 .3 Read JIM email to Pollack re late answers; talk with JIM
.2 Found and scanned and emailed 160.50 releases to ACCs for Isufi and Rubin
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Il/4/II .3 Emails from JIM to Pollack, and letter to him re I60.50s and otherwise; email with JIM
.I Talk with JIM
.5 Marked Isufi and Rubin complaints from Ds' answers I2/5/I I .2 Talk with JIM re con£ tomorrow with J Sand
.3 Made proposed CMO and email to opposing counsel I2/6/II 1.5 Review of file in prep for int'l conference
.8 Initial conference with J Sand, and discussion with JIM I2/7/12 .5 Review ofDs' Initial Disclosures I2/I2/II .1 Read JIM email to Gaby Day
.1 Rec' d call from AI Rubin 12/21/11 .2 Email from JIM to Pollack~ spoke with JIM 12/26/11 5.0 Sorted through, scanned and bates #ed documents and put
on disc, and made supplemental initial disclosures and sent to Pollack and JIM
12/27/1I .2 Emails with llM 1/10/12 .4 Spoke to JIM 1/11/12 .I Email with JIM 1/30/12 .2 Emails with JIM 1/31/12 .2 Emails with JIM
2/7/12 2.5 Made 2"0 set of discov req' s, and letter to ACC Pollack re case status I potential settlement I discovery arrears
2/14112 .1 Call to ACC Pollack and discusses potential settlement .1 Email to Jimmy re talk with Pollack
2/28/12 .1 Lm for Pollack re his promised offer
3/1/12 .1 Lm for Pollack again re his promised offer 3/8/12 .1 Lm for, and spoke with, Pollack
3/9/12 .3 Call from JIM; checked Betty Posner docket sheet re activity; lm for Hazen w/ JIM
3/16/12 .2 Call from JIM
.1 Tried to call ACC Hazan; email to Hazan
.I Call from Hazan
.1 Email to JIM re talk with Hazan 3/19/12 .1 Spoke with ACC Pollack re absence of settlement offer
.I Email with JIM 3/22/12 .1 Lm for ACC Pollack re absence of settlement offer 3/27/12 .5 Drafted letter to Judge Sand; scanned and emailed to
counsel .4 Hand-delivered letter at SDNY
3/28/I2 .1 Call from ACC Pollack re our demand .I Email to JIM re my talk with Pollack
3/29/12 .3 Received Pollack letter to J Sand; email and spoke with JIM
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4/3/12 .1 Call from JIM 4/4/12 .I Spoke with Pollack
.1 Lm for chambers re scheduling conference
.1 Email to JIM 4/5112 .4 Reviewed Ds' initial disclosures and drafted notice of
deposition and cover letter .4 Hand-delivered notice of dep at law dept. .1 Scanned notice of dep and email to Pollack, Hazan, and
JIM .2 Spoke with JIM
4/9/12 .1 Email from David Hazan re consolidated deps 4/10/I2 .1 Email from JIM
.I Lm with J Sand Deputy Jose Lopez, and email to JIM re same
.2 Call from Mr. Lopez, and email to other counsel re scheduling phone conference
4/11/I2 .2 Spoke with Pollack re tel conf w/ Judge, and re dep scheduling
.2 Lm for chambers and email to opposing counsel re same
.I Spoke with JIM re discovery considerations 4/12/12 .I Email re phone conference with Chambers
.I Tried to call chambers deputy re the problem with multi-person conference call (he's out today)
4/13/I2 .I Spoke with Jose Lopez at chambers re Monday conference call
.I Call to freeconferencecall.com for mon. call
.I Email to all counsel re logistics for Monday call
.I Call from Pollack re offers
.I Email from Pollack re offers and email to JIM re same 4/I4112 .2 Spoke and email with JIM 4/I5112 .I Spoke with Rubin
.I Spoke with Isufi
.3 Spoke with JIM 4/I6/12 .I Tried to call Pollack with JIM
.6 Conf call with J Sand and other counsel, and negotiations with Pollack and JIM
.I Spoke with JIM
.I Call from JIM
.2 Emails with Pollack 4/23/I2 .I Email to Pollack re status of discov responses
.I Spoke with JIM 4/25/12 .I Email to Pollack re status of discov responses 4/30/12 .2 Call from JIM re Pollack, and conf call message to Pollack
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5/l/I2 .I Conf call with JIM and Pollack . 2 Discussed with JIM, and call with J Sand's deputy Mr .
Lopez .1 Read JIM letter to J Sand
5/3/I2 .3 Read JIM emails with Pollack, and spoke with JIM .I Read Hazan letter to J Sand re discov I answer arrears in
the Posner case 5/7/12 .1 Spoke with JIM
.1 Lm for ACC Pollack to call me re outstanding matters 5/9/I2 .2 Calls from JIM
.8 Review ofDs' supplemental disclosures 5/12/I2 .2 Read JIM email to Pollack re inadequate discov responses,
etc. 5/14/12 .9 Received and reviewed Ds' inadequate discov responses
.1 Email with JIM 5/I5/12 .2 Talk to JIM
.I Email to JIM and other counsel re the call in # for the conf call tomorrow
.I Call from Pollack re discov and re the R 68s
.1 Call to JIM and relayed my discussion with Pollack (Pollack hadn't wanted to have a conference call)
= 83.7 hours
83.7 hours X $475 per hour= $39,757.50 in Rothman fees
Expenses
Date expense Activity
6/16/II 4.00 Copies of lsufi and Rubin complaints and statements of relatedness and cover sheets for filing at SDNY
6/17/1I 700 Filing fees at SDNY for lsufi and Rubin complaints 6/23/II 37.73 Kinkos copies of complaints for service in Isufi and Rubin 6/27/11 8.I6 Postage for follow-up mailing of service to Costello, UC
293, Kong, and Koch 8/25/11 I3.60 Copies of Isufi and Rubin complaints and stmnts of
relatedness for svce on Braille and Conroy 8/26/I1 2.96 Follow-up svce by mail on Braille in Isufi and Rubin I1/2I/Il 74 Svce on Conroy in lsufi and Rubin
= $840.45 in Rothman expenses
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Exhibit D
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THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAIJWWW.NU.CIIM I DECEMBER 19. 2011
I BilliNG SURVEY
A nationwide sampling of law firm billing rates The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2011 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms to provide a
range of hourly billing rates. Firms that supplied the information are listed in alphabetical order.
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lHE NATIONAl lAW .JOIJRNAlJWWWJIU.COII I OECEM8U 19. 2011
BILLING SURVEY
Firms report their billing rates by associate class Belo'w is a sampling of hourly rates charged by law firms that establish billing rates based on associate class.
Firms that supplied this information are listed in alphabetical order.
By Email David Pollack, Esq. Assistant Corporation Counsel NYC Law Department Special Federal Litigation Division 1 00 Church Street New York, NY 10007
May 21, 2012
Re: Andrew Rosa vs The City ofNew York. et al, 11 Civ 2942 (LBS) Gaby Day vs The City of New York. et al., 11 Civ 2956 (LBS) Mirsad lsufi vs The City ofNew York. et al.,11 Civ 4159 (LBS) Allen Rubin vs The City ofNew York. et al.. 11 Civ 4160 (LBS)
Dear David:
I write concerning the attorneys' fees and costs that will accompany the accepted Rule 68 Offers made in the above-captioned cases. Enclosed please find my and Mr. Meyerson's time sheets, and an itemization of our out-of-pocket expenses. Please contact us to see if we can negotiate a stipulation as to the attorneys' fees and costs that would avoid the need for a formal fee application. Mr. Meyerson's time is billed at the rate of$650.00 per hour. My time is billed at the rate of$475.00 per hour.
The breakdown is as follows:
64.2 Meyerson hours X $650 per hour= $41,730.00 Me_yerson Expenses $2175.84 83.7 Rothman hours X $4 75.00 per hour= $39,757.50 Rothman Expenses $840.45
Total= $84,503.79
Please note that if it is necessary to litigate a fee application, we will also bill for any time necessary to prepare and litigate the fee application itself.
When you have a chance to review the enclosed time and expense sheets, please give us a call to discuss. Please turn to this as soon as possible, so that we can bring this matter expeditiously to a close.
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Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
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Jeffrey Rothman Jimmy Meyerson
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