There is no objection to the rates charged or to the reasonableness and necessity of the work performed. Debtor's Memorandum at pg. As we understand the debtor's objection, it asks us to allow a lower rate for ministerial work and for work such as reading correspondence, telephone conversation, review, and miscellaneous meetings. We agree with that part of the holding in International Coins and Currency, Inc., supra, which states that ministerial functions should be billed at a lower rate than those of a strictly legal nature. Finally, we cannot agree with the debtor's assertion that litigation services are necessarily compensable at a higher rate than other legal services.
Lawyers are certainly free to place a different value on different classes of services they provide.
We hold today only that one of the standards of rate differentiation is the objective difference between ministerial and legal work as set out above. Not all travel time is compensable in bankruptcy. Accordingly, it has been this Court's policy not to allow for local travel time under one hour, without a special showing. On the other hand, we have allowed reasonable travel expenses, including mileage at 20.5 cents a mile, parking, and tolls. These are variable expenses, not generally foreseeable, nor commonly a component of overhead.