If you do not succeed on all your claims, it may well affect the fees that are recoverable. If you recover nothing for yourself except "nominal" damages such as $1 for hurt feelings, there is a real risk that you may not be granted any attorneys' fees at all from the defendant. Although the calculation of fees should not be based on a formula, there are some cases in which courts have apportioned the fees based on the proportion of successful claims to unsuccessful claims. For instance, if your lawsuit had five claims and you prevailed on only two, such a decision would grant you only two-fifths of the fees requested - perhaps with further reductions for inefficiency, supposedly inflated hour rates, etc. There are other cases in which courts have even cut the attorneys' fees they award because the plaintiff sought large damages but obtained only a smaller amount.