No claim was made for the time spent by those students. The students' time was not eliminated because of a concern about the failure to prevail on one of the claims. Instead, there appear to have been some problems locating the former students or their time records. Still, the elimination of that time does have the effect of reducing the total claim for attorney's fees. The time sheets submitted with the motion are not sufficiently detailed to allow a clear determination of which hours were spent on which claim.
Some estimation is necessary.
The time sheets show that Complainant's attorney billed 36.92 hours before preparing the motion to add the claim for the Picard hiring. It is recommended that 25 of those hours be eliminated. Certainly, during that period of time, Complainant's counsel could not have been working on a claim which had not yet been brought. However, because there was some overlap in the claims, there should be some compensation for time spent on discovery which was necessary to the successful aspect of the case. After all, as noted above, none of the law students' time was claimed.