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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 15:2301 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act

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1292522.3 -1- ORDER NO. 11

(PROTOCOLS FOR COMMON BENEFIT

WORK AND EXPENSES)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

IN RE: VOLKSWAGEN “CLEAN 

DIESEL” MARKETING, SALES 

PRACTICES, AND PRODUCTS 

LIABILITY LITIGATION

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MDL 2672 CRB (JSC)

PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 11: PROTOCOL

FOR COMMON BENEFIT WORK AND 

EXPENSES

This Order Relates to: 

ALL ACTIONS (except securities fraud 

actions)

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In Pretrial Order No. 7 [Dkt. 1084], the Court appointed Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel and the 

Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. Pursuant to that Order, the Court now wishes to set specific 

guidelines and rules for work done and expenses incurred for the common benefit of all Plaintiffs 

in this MDL. Nothing in this Order shall be interpreted to affect any proceedings other than those 

involving the authorities, duties, responsibilities, guidelines, and rules of and for Plaintiffs’ 

counsel, as discussed herein.

I. Adoption of Case Management Protocols for Common Benefit Work

The Court hereby adopts the following guidelines for the management of case-staffing, 

timekeeping, cost reimbursement, and related common benefit issues. The recovery of common 

benefit attorneys’ fees and cost reimbursements will be limited to “Participating Counsel.” 

“Participating Counsel” shall be defined as Lead Counsel and members of the Plaintiffs’ Steering

Committee (along with members and staff of their respective firms), any other counsel authorized 

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by Lead Counsel to perform work that may be considered for common benefit compensation, 

and/or counsel who have been specifically approved by this Court as Participating Counsel prior 

to incurring any such cost or expense. 

Eligibility does not pre-determine payment. If and to the extent that this litigation is 

certified as a class action under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 for purposes of resolution and/or trial, any 

award of fees and costs for common benefit work will be governed by the standards and 

procedures of Rule 23, including Rule 23(h). In any event, no award or payment of common 

benefit fees or costs shall be made without this Court’s approval.

Participating Counsel shall be eligible to receive common benefit attorneys’ fees and 

reimbursement of costs and expenses only if the time expended, costs incurred, and activity in 

question were (a) for the common benefit of Plaintiffs; (b) timely submitted; and (c) reasonable.

Participating Counsel, as defined above, shall agree to the terms and conditions herein, 

including submitting to this Court’s jurisdiction and agreeing that this Court has plenary authority 

regarding the award and allocation of common benefit attorneys’ fees and expense 

reimbursements in this matter.

Lead Counsel will be responsible for collecting monthly common benefit time and 

expense submissions from Participating Counsel, auditing such submissions for compliance with 

the directives set forth in this Order, and informing Participating Counsel when their submissions 

do not comply with the directives set forth in this Order. Lead Counsel’s auditing responsibility 

notwithstanding, the ultimate determination of what is compensable common benefit work, and 

the extent or rate at which it is compensable, is within the purview of the Court.

In the event that Participating Counsel are unsure if the action they are about to undertake 

is considered Common Benefit Work, they shall ask Lead Counsel in advance as to whether such 

time may be compensable.

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(PROTOCOLS FOR COMMON BENEFIT

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A. Compensable Common Benefit Work

“Common Benefit Work” includes all work done and expenses incurred that inure to the 

common benefit of Plaintiffs in this MDL. 

Examples of compensable and noncompensable work include, but are not limited to:

1. Consolidated Pleadings and Briefs: (i) factual and legal research and 

preparation of consolidated class action complaints and related briefing; 

(ii) responding to inquiries from class members; (iii) communications with 

clients in response to Lead Counsel’s requests regarding proposed class 

representatives; (iv) comments and suggestions regarding the consolidated 

class action complaints; and (v) class-related issues and briefing related 

thereto are compensable.

2. Depositions: While it is impracticable to impose inflexible rules to cover 

every conceivable situation, Lead Counsel shall exercise discretion, 

judgment, and prudence to designate only that number of attorneys to 

participate in any given deposition that is commensurate with the nature of 

that deposition so as to avoid over-staffing. Thus, for example, the 

deposition of a causation expert proffered by Defendants would typically 

justify the assignment of more attorneys than would the defense of the 

deposition of one of Plaintiffs’ fact witnesses. Time and expenses for 

Participating Counsel not designated as one of the authorized questioners 

or otherwise authorized to attend the deposition by Lead Counsel may not 

be considered Common Benefit Work but, rather, considered as attending 

on behalf of such counsel’s individual clients. Unnecessary attendance by 

counsel may not be compensated in any fee application to the Court.

3. Periodic MDL Status Conferences: The Court intends to hold periodic 

status conferences to ensure that the litigation moves forward efficiently,

and that legal issues are resolved with guidance from or formal rulings by 

the Court. Individual attorneys are free to attend any status conference held 

in open court to stay up to date on the status of the litigation, but except for 

Lead Counsel and members of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee or their 

designees, attending and listening to such conferences is not compensable 

Common Benefit Work. All attorneys have an obligation to keep 

themselves informed about the litigation so that they can best represent 

their respective clients. Mere attendance at a status conference will not be 

considered common benefit time, and expenses incurred in relation thereto 

will not be considered common benefit expenses. The attorneys designated 

by Lead Counsel to address issues that will be raised at a given status 

conference or requested by Lead Counsel to be present at a status 

conference are working for the common benefit, and their time will be 

considered for the common benefit. Similarly, any attorney whose 

attendance at a status conference is specifically requested by the 

undersigned (or by any other judge presiding over this matter or Courtappointed Special Master) to address a common issue may submit his or 

her time and expenses for such attendance for evaluation as Common 

Benefit Work.

4. Identification and Work-Up of Experts: If a Participating Counsel 

retains an expert without the knowledge and approval of Lead Counsel, 

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time and expenses attributable to the same may not be approved as 

Common Benefit Work. On the other hand, communications with and 

retention of experts with the knowledge and approval of Lead Counsel will 

be considered common benefit time.

5. Attendance at Seminars: Except as approved by Lead Counsel, 

attendance at seminars (e.g., American Association for Justice Section 

Meetings, Mass Torts Made Perfect, Harris Martin, and similar seminars 

and Continuing Legal Education programs) shall not qualify as Common 

Benefit Work, or the expenses pertaining thereto as Common Benefit 

Expenses.

6. Discovery and Document Review: Only discovery and document review 

authorized by Lead Counsel and assigned to an attorney or law firm will be 

considered Common Benefit Work. If a firm/attorney elects to review 

documents that have not been assigned to them by Lead Counsel, that 

review may not be considered Common Benefit Work. Descriptions 

associated with “document review” should contain sufficient detail to allow 

those reviewing the time entry to generally ascertain what was reviewed. 

For example, indicating the custodian, search query, or number of 

document folders reviewed is the kind of description needed.

7. Review of Court Filings and Orders: All attorneys have an obligation to 

keep themselves informed about the litigation so that they can best 

represent their respective clients, and review of briefs and filings made and 

Orders entered in this litigation is part of that obligation. Only Courtappointed Counsel and those attorneys working on assignments therefrom

that require them to review, analyze, or summarize those filings or Orders 

in connection with their assignments are doing so for the common benefit. 

All other counsel are reviewing those filings and Orders for their own 

benefit and that of their respective clients and such review will not be 

considered Common Benefit Work.

8. Emails and Correspondence: Except for the Counsel appointed by the 

Court and their assigned attorneys and staff, time recorded for reviewing 

emails and other correspondence is not compensable unless germane to a 

specific task being performed by the receiving or sending attorney or party 

that is directly related to that email or other correspondence and that is for 

the common benefit of plaintiffs. Thus, for example, review of an email or 

other correspondence sent to dozens of attorneys to keep them informed on 

a matter on which they are not specifically working would not be 

compensable as Common Benefit Work. All attorneys have an obligation 

to keep themselves informed about the litigation so that they can best 

represent their clients and that is a reason to review emails and 

correspondence to a larger group, when they involve a matter on which the 

recipient is not directly and immediately working.

B. Common Benefit Timekeeping Protocols

All time must be accurately and contemporaneously maintained. Participating Counsel 

shall keep contemporaneous billing records of the time spent in connection with Common Benefit 

Work on this MDL, indicating with specificity the hours (in tenth-of-an-hour increments) and 

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billing rate, along with a description of the particular activity (such as “conducted deposition of 

John Doe”). 

Each time entry must be categorized using one of the categories in Exhibit A. In general, 

when possible, a more specific category should be used in place of a more general category. 

Under no circumstances should a submitting firm make up new categories for use in its 

submission. 

While the categories are generally self-explanatory, below are some further explanations 

of some of the categories that may have the potential for the most confusion. 

1. Lead/PSC Duties (category 3) – This category code should only be used 

for work done by Court-appointed Lead Counsel, members of the 

Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, and their assigned attorneys and staff, in 

their capacity as Court-appointed Counsel. This category should be used 

primarily for Court-appointed Counsel’s more general or administrative 

responsibilities that do not fit into other, more specific categories. These 

include, but are not limited to, reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing 

filings and orders, or coordinating and designating non-Court-appointed 

attorneys to conduct common-benefit tasks such as document reviews, 

depositions, or work with experts. This category should not be used by any 

timekeeper who is not a Court-appointed Counsel or one of their assigned 

attorneys or staff.

2. Administrative (4) – This category should be used for internal filing and 

organizational tasks, such as reviewing and downloading documents from 

the ECF case docket(s), creating charts, reviewing filings generally, 

updating calendars, copying and distributing documents, drafting 

memoranda, etc., whether done by an attorney or staff. Please remember 

that the review of filings and orders to stay informed about the litigation is 

every attorney’s obligation, and time spent on such tasks is not

compensable as Common Benefit Work for most timekeepers. See supra,

II(A)(8). 

3. Discovery (8) – Almost all common benefit discovery-related tasks should 

be coded with this category. The exceptions are: document review (which 

should be coded category 9), discovery-related motions or briefs (which 

should be coded category 12), discovery-related court appearances (which 

should be category 6), and preparation for and taking/defending 

depositions (which should be category 11). 

4. Document Review (9) – For the purposes of this category, the word 

“document” specifically means documents or other information produced 

in discovery. In other words, this category is not to be used for every 

instance of reading a document – it is more specific than that. Only 

discovery document review specifically authorized by Lead Counsel and 

assigned to an attorney will be considered Common Benefit Work. See 

supra, II(A)(7). Time entry descriptions for document review tasks should

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include specific details such as custodians, search query, number of 

document folders reviewed, or other similar details. 

5. Pleadings/Briefs/Pre-trial Motions/Legal Memoranda (12) – All 

research and drafting time spent for a specific pleading, brief, motion, or 

similar legal writing should be coded in this category. 

6. Trial (17) – This category is reserved solely for tasks performed during a 

trial. 

7. Miscellaneous (19) – This is a general category that should not be used if a 

more specific category can be used instead. Any activities that are done in 

connection with or as part of a larger task like a brief, or a court 

appearance, or a meeting, should be categorized according to that larger 

task. This category should be used relatively infrequently; however, if it is 

used, it is critical that the description of the task be sufficiently detailed to 

make clear how the work was common benefit.

Should you have additional questions about particular timekeeping categories, please 

direct them to Lead Counsel. Under no circumstances should a submitting firm make up new 

categories for use in its submission.

C. Hourly Rates

Use your customary billing rates in your monthly time reports. Use of these rates does not 

guarantee their payment. The Court reserves the discretion to determine appropriate rates as the 

circumstances may warrant.

D. Common Benefit Expenses Protocol

1. Shared Costs

“Shared Costs” are costs that will be paid out of the Litigation Fund administered by 

Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel. Each Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee member shall contribute to the 

Fund at times and in amounts sufficient to cover plaintiffs’ expenses for the administration of this 

MDL. The timing and amount of each assessment will be determined by Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel, 

in consultation with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, and each assessment will be paid within 

30 days as instructed by Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel. Failure to pay assessments will be grounds for 

removal from the appointments made in previous Court Orders or other common benefit 

assignments.

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Shared Costs are costs incurred for the common benefit of Plaintiffs in this MDL as a 

whole. No client-related costs, save certain costs relating to future cases selected as bellwether 

cases that will be for the common benefit (e.g., related to liability and causation), shall be 

considered Shared Costs, unless exceptional circumstances exist and are approved by later order 

of this Court. All Shared Costs must be approved by Lead Counsel prior to payment.

All costs that meet these requirements and fall under the following categories shall be 

considered Shared Costs and qualify for submission and payment directly from the Fund:

• Court, filing, and service costs related to common issues;

• Court reporter and interpreter costs for depositions;

• Document (both electronic and hard copy) depository creation, operation, 

staffing, equipment, and administration;

• Lead Counsel or Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee out-of-house or 

extraordinary administration matters (e.g., expenses for equipment, 

technology, courier services, long distance, telecopier, electronic service, 

photocopy and printing, secretarial/temporary staff, meetings and 

conference calls, etc.);

• Legal, tax, and accountant fees relating to the Fund;

• Expert witness and consultant fees and expenses for experts whose 

opinions and testimony would be generic and for the common benefit of a 

substantial number of cases. There shall be no reimbursement for casespecific experts, except for liability and causation experts in bellwether 

cases, with the approval of Lead Counsel;

• Printing, copying, coding, and scanning related to the above (only out-ofhouse or extraordinary firm costs);

• Research by outside third-party vendors/consultants/attorneys, approved by 

Lead Counsel;

• Translation costs related to the above, approved by Lead Counsel;

• Bank or financial institution charges relating to the Fun;

• Investigative services, approved by Lead Counsel; and

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• Any assessment paid by Lead Counsel, by any member firm of Plaintiffs’ 

Steering Committee, or by a non-PSC firm from whom as assessment was 

requested by Lead Counsel.

Lead Counsel shall prepare and be responsible for distributing reimbursement procedures 

and the forms associated therewith. Requests for payments from the Fund for Common Benefit 

expenses shall include sufficient information to permit Lead Counsel and a Certified Public 

Accountant (“CPA”) to account properly for costs and to provide adequate detail to the Court if 

necessary.

2. Held Costs

“Held Costs” are those that will be carried by each attorney in this MDL and reimbursed 

as and when Lead Counsel determines to do so. Held Costs are those that do not fall into the 

above Shared Costs categories but are incurred for the common benefit of all plaintiffs in this 

MDL. No client-specific costs can be considered Held Costs, other than certain Common Benefit 

costs relating to class representatives and future bellwether cases at the discretion of Lead 

Counsel and Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. Held Costs shall be recorded in accordance with the 

guidelines set forth herein and on the form provided as Addendum B hereto. 

Held Costs shall be subject to the following limitations:

3. Travel Limitations

Only reasonable expenses will be reimbursed. Except in unusual circumstances approved 

by Lead Counsel, all travel reimbursements are subject to the following limitations:

• Airfare: For routine domestic flights, ordinarily only the price of a 

refundable, changeable and convenient coach fare seat or its 

equivalent will be reimbursed. For international travel or 

transcontinental flights with a total duration exceeding four hours, 

business class, or if business class is not available, first class, may 

be reimbursed at Lead Counsel’s discretion. Private or charter 

travel will not be reimbursed except in unusual circumstances, as 

approved by Lead Counsel.

• Hotel: Hotel room charges for the average available room rate of a 

reasonable business hotel will be reimbursed.

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• Meals: Meal expenses must be reasonable. Unusually large meal 

expenses may be reviewed by Lead Counsel and disallowed.

• Cash Expenses: Miscellaneous cash expenses for which receipts 

generally are not available (e.g., tips, luggage handling) will be 

reimbursed up to $50.00 per trip, as long as the expenses are 

properly itemized.

• Automobile Rental: Automobile rentals must be reasonable for the 

date and location of the rental.

• Mileage: Mileage claims must be documented by stating 

origination point, destination, and total actual miles for each trip. 

The rate will be the maximum rate allowed by the Internal Revenue 

Service.

4. Non-Travel Limitations

• Long Distance, Conference Call, and Cellular Telephone 

Charges: Common Benefit long distance, conference call, and 

cellular telephone charges are to be reported at actual cost.

• Shipping, Overnight, Courier, and Delivery Charges: All 

claimed Common Benefit shipping, overnight, courier, or delivery 

expenses must be documented with bills showing the sender, origin 

of the package, recipient, and destination of the package. Such 

charges are to be reported at actual cost.

• Postage Charges: Common Benefit postage charges are to be 

reported at actual cost.

• Telefax Charges: Common Benefit fax charges shall not exceed 

$0.50 per page.

• In-House Photocopy: The maximum charge for Common Benefit 

in-house copies is $0.15 per page.

• Computerized Research- Lexis, Westlaw, or Bloomberg: Claims 

for Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg, or other computerized legal 

research expenses should be in the actual amount charged to the 

firm and appropriately allocated for these research services.

No entry should contain more than one category of expense when practical, and no entry 

should have more than one expense category code assigned to it. If, on the same day, one person 

incurs two expenses that fall into two different categories, then there should be two separate 

entries for that person for that date, each with the appropriate expense description and category 

code.

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Similarly, when practical no listed expense entry should include expenses incurred by 

more than one person. If multiple people incur the same expense for the same category, then 

generally there should be a separate entry for each person, unless a single person paid the expense 

for multiple people. 

Every expense entry should be as detailed and specific as reasonably practical. 

Descriptions such as “Filing and Service Fees,” “Service of Process,” “Plane Ticket,” 

“Investigation Fees,” “Hearing Transcript,” and “Deposition Services” are not sufficient. Every 

entry must describe the task for which the expense was incurred in enough detail to reasonably 

identify what the expense was, who incurred it, why it was incurred, and how it related to 

Common Benefit Work. For example: What was filed and on behalf of whom? Who was served 

with what document and on behalf of whom? What hearing transcript was requested and for what 

purpose? For whom was the plane ticket purchased, for air travel from where to where, on what 

dates of travel? (The same goes for hotels, taxis, car services, tips, meals, and any other travelrelated expenses.) Expense entries without sufficient detail may be rejected at Lead Counsel’s 

discretion.

Attorneys shall provide receipts for all expenses. This does not mean that receipts are to 

be provided “upon request” – it means each firm must provide receipts monthly along with their 

expense submissions, in PDF form, not hard copy. Credit card receipts (not the monthly 

statements) are an appropriate form of verification. Hotel costs must be proven with the full hotel 

invoice. The description of unclaimed expenses on the invoice may be redacted.

E. Protocols for Submission of Time and Expenses

1. Format

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For Lead Counsel to maintain all time submissions in a fully sortable and searchable 

format, all of the time and expense submissions must be provided by submitting counsel in the 

following format. 

1. Counsel must use the Excel forms provided as Exhibits to this Order. This means 

that each monthly submission will consist of one Excel file, within which there will be four 

“sheets” (marked by tabs at the bottom): “Expense Report,” “Supplemental Expense Report,” 

“Monthly Time Report,” and “Monthly Time Report Totals.”

2. In the “Monthly Time Report,” the person who performed each task should be 

identified in the column called “Last Name, First Name” by their complete last name, a comma, 

and their complete first name (e.g. Smith, John). Please do not use abbreviations or initials in this 

column. 

3. In all reports, the date must be provided in month/day/year format (e.g., 10/23/14). 

2. Deadlines

Time submissions shall be made to Lead Counsel on a monthly basis, by deadlines and in 

accordance with the guidelines set forth herein. The first submission is due on April 15, 2016 and 

should include all time and expense from inception of work on clean-diesel-VW-emissionsrelated litigation through March 31, 2016. After this first submission, each monthly submission 

should include all common benefit time and expenses incurred from the first to the last day of the 

preceding month (e.g. the submission due May 15, 2016, should contain all common benefit time 

and expenses incurred from April 1, 2016, through April 30, 2016. 

Although counsel should endeavor to submit all common benefit expenses incurred in a 

certain month in the submission made on the 15th of the next month, the realities of third-party 

billing and credit card statement schedules may make such quick expense submission difficult in 

some circumstances. Thus submissions of “supplemental” common benefit expense reports will 

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be permitted for those expenses incurred during the previous six months that – because of 

circumstances outside the submitting counsel’s control – could not have been submitted by the 

deadline. Any common benefit expenses submitted more than six months in arrears may not be 

considered or included in any compilation of common benefit expense calculation and may be 

disallowed, except for good cause shown and with approval of Lead Counsel. 

Supplemental submissions of common benefit time will be permitted only for good cause 

shown and with the approval of Lead Counsel.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 25, 2016 __________________________

CHARLES R. BREYER

United States District Judge

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ADDENDUM A

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IN RE VOLKSWAGEN CLEAN DIESEL LITIGATION

MONTHLY TIME REPORT

Firm Name:

Date

Categories: 1. Lead Counsel Calls/Meetings 2. PSC Calls/Meetings 3. Lead Counsel/PSC Duties 4. Administrative 5. MDL Status Conf. 6. Court Appearance 7. Research 8. Discovery 9. Doc. 

Review 10. Litigation Strategy & Analysis 11. Dep: Prep/Take/Defend 12. Pleadings/Briefs/Pre-trial Motions/Legal 13. Science 14. Experts/Consultants 15. Settlement 16. Trial Prep/Bellwether 17. 

Trial 18. Appeal 19. Miscellaneous (describe)

Last Name, First Name

Professional

level: Partner

(PT), Associate

(A), Contract (C),

or Paralegal (PR)

Date of

Service:

Category

Code:

Category

Name: Detailed Description of Work performed: Billing Rate:

Time spent

(by 0.1

increments) Fees Total:

Category Name Total Time per Category Total Fees per Category

Lead Counsel Calls/Meeting

PSC Calls/Meeting

Lead Counsel/PSC Duties

Administrative

MDL Status Conf.

Court Appearance

Research

Discovery

Doc. Review

Litigation Strategy & Analysis

Dep: Prep/Take/Defend

Pleadings/Briefs, Pretrial Motions, Legal

Science

Experts/Consultants

Settlement

TrialPrep/Bellwether

Trial

Appeal

Miscellaneous

Total:

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ADDENDUM B

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IN RE VOLKSWAGEN CLEAN DIESEL LITIGATION Expense Report for

Law Firm

Categories: 1. Assessment Fees 2. Federal Express / Local Courier, etc. 3. Postage Charges 4. Facsimile Charges 5. Long Distance 6. In-House Photocopying

7. Outside Photocopying 8. Hotels 9. Meals 10. Mileage 11. Air Travel 12. Deposition Costs 13. Lexis/Westlaw 14. Court Fees 15. Witness / Expert Fees

16. Investigation Fees / Service Fees 17. Transcripts 18. Ground Transportation (i.e. Rental, Taxis, etc.) 19. Miscellaneous (Describe)

****************************************ALL ORIGINAL RECEIPTS MUST BE ATTACHED TO THIS EXPENSE SHEET****************************************

Date: Category Code: Category Name: Detailed Description: Amount:

Receipt Provided: Yes / No

(if no, provide reason)

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