Fee

Appear / Attend – Court

Actual time in court (including hearings, pretrial, status conferences, and docket calls), or formal appearances before other governmental authorities.

Fee

Appear / Attend – Depositions

Actual time taking or defending a deposition / examination before trial, including telephonic depositions.

Fee

Appear / Attend – General

Attendance at non-specific events, conferences, meetings, strategy sessions, interviews, or site inspections.

Fee

Appear / Attend – Mediation

Actual time spent attending mediations, arbitrations, settlement hearings, and settlement conferences in court.

Fee

Block Billing

All bundled activities that are submitted without time or with incorrect time increments.

Fee

Communicate

All methods of verbal or electronic voice communications including phone calls, telephone conferencing, voice mail, and discussions

Fee

Correspondence

All activities relative to the drafting, revising, review and analysis of paper or electronic correspondence including letters, transmittal or instructional memos, e-mail, and facsimiles (e.g., draft, revise, review, prepare, send, respond)

Fee

Draft / Revise

All activities to prepare a written product (other than paper or electronic correspondence)

Fee

Manage Data/ Files

All activities that are more of a file maintenance nature (includes docket management, updating charts, indexes, logs, collecting and assembling documents, Bates stamping, redacting, compiling notebooks)

Fee

Plan & Prepare

In general all activities performed in preparation for non-specific events, conferences, meetings, strategy sessions, interviews, or site inspections.

Fee

Plan & Prepare – Court

All activities performed in preparation for court, trial, hearings, or formal appearances before other governmental authorities (including, but not limited to, file review; creating or revising visual aids, drafting examination outlines and opening and closing statements).)

Fee

Plan & Prepare – Depositions

All activities performed in preparation for taking or defending depositions or examinations before trial (including file review, drafting examination outlines, witness preparation, pre-deposition conferencing)

Fee

Plan and Prepare - Mediation

All activities performed in preparation for mediation, arbitration, formal settlement conferences or hearings in court, and/or before other governmental authorities (including, but not limited to, file review; creating or revising visual aids, drafting examination outlines and opening and closing statements).

Fee

Process

All activities associated with service of process, filing documents with a court or other governmental office (Secretary of State, Patent and Trademark Office)

Fee

Research – General

All research that is not legal (e.g., general records searches, UCC searches, real property searches, civil / criminal records searches, business / credit / employment histories, searches relative to expert witnesses)

Fee

Research – Legal

All research re: case law, statutory law, legal opinion, or legal topic (includes LexisNexis, Westlaw, Shepardizing)

Fee

Review / Analyze

All activities involving review and/or analysis (other than in preparation for court, trial, mediation, arbitration, or depositions; or review and/or analysis of paper or electronic correspondence)

Fee

Supervise

Performing supervisory or managerial tasks, including, but not limited to, supervising, managing, administering, overseeing, training, instructing, organizing, handling, observing, directing, delegating, coordinating, and arranging (other than where specified in preparation for court, trial, mediation, arbitration or depositions; or review and/or analysis of paper or electronic correspondence).

Fee

Travel

Travel to or from (including travel relative to court, trial, mediation, arbitration or depositions)

Fee

Uncategorized Fees

Fees billed for any activity that does not fall within the previous categories or which cannot be determined because of vague or missing itemizations.

Expense

Arbitrators/ Mediators

All expenses associated with arbitration and/or mediation, including, but not limited to fees paid to arbitrators or mediators and arbitration filing fees

Expense

Copying

Any and all types of in-house copying including, but not limited to, photocopying, word processing laser prints, in-house printing, binding, or electronic imaging services

Expense

Delivery Services / Messengers

All costs associated with overnight or specialty courier and/or messenger services including, but not limited to, Federal Express, UPS, Airborne Express, DHL, Express Mail

Expense

Deposition/Trial Transcripts

All costs associated with deposition, trial or hearing transcripts including, but not limited to, court reporter fees, copies of transcripts, audio transcripts, videographer fees, videotaped transcripts, and certification charges

Expense

Experts

All expenses associated with expert witnesses including, but not limited to, expert fees, travel, meals, research, expert investigation, on-site inspections, and consulting fees

Expense

Filing Fees

All court costs and fees including, but not limited to, filing fees, court costs, subpoena issuance fees, docket fees, and copies or certification of court documents

Expense

Legal Support Vendors

Specialty litigation support services (rather than product) including, but not limited to, limited web hosting, IT or other technical services; Law Bulletin, CourtAlert or other case monitoring services; tax and accounting services; and translation services

Expense

Local Counsel

Fees and costs paid as an out-of-pocket disbursement by outside counsel for work performed by a third-party law firm most often retained for specialized or limited services. Please Note: This category was formerly called 'Flat Fee' but has been renamed to avoid confusion with non-itemized fees invoiced by outside counsel.

Expense

Meals

All itemized expenses associated with meals

Expense

Outside Duplicating

All expenses associated with a product prepared outside the law firm by a third party at the law firm's request including, but not limited to, large copy jobs, color copies, enlargements/reductions, printing, binding, redacting, Bate stamping, graphics, visual aids, duplication of video or audio tapes (other than video depo or trial transcripts), imaging, scanning, production/duplication of digital media

Expense

Postage

Postage costs (except Express Mail which is covered under Delivery Services / Messengers, above.)

Expense

Records Retrieval/Storage

All expenses associated with data, file or records archiving, storage and retrieval, including, but not limited to, Recordtrak charges; costs of obtaining medical, police, SSA, and DMV/MVA records; and the costs of implementing and maintaining e-discovery.

Expense

Research – General

Expenses associated with the cost of all non-legal research including, but not limited to, on-line research, records research, and purchase of books or things for research purposes

Expense

Research – Legal

Expenses associated with the cost of legal research (including LexisNexis & Westlaw charges)

Expense

Service of Process

Expenses associated with service of process, including fees and mileage costs

Expense

Subpoena Fees

Out-of-pocket disbursements for the preparation of and follow-up on non-records related subpoenas; also for subpoena services that are bundled or non-specific in nature.

Expense

Telephone

All costs associated with telephone communications (including video-conferencing costs) (e.g., long distance, video conference, conference call, telecommunications)

Expense

Travel

All travel expenses, local and out-of-town (does not include meals) (e.g., mileage, parking, tolls, car rental, hotel, airfare, taxi, gratuities)

Expense

Uncategorized Costs

All expenses that do not fall within one of the other expense groups or which cannot be determined because of vague or missing itemizations

Expense

Witness Fees

Fees and costs associated with any non-expert deposition or trial witness, including statutory appearance fees and mileage or travel expenses paid to the witness

Other

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