Opinion ID: 187229
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Fee application fees

Text: Fabi further seeks $37,590.60 in attorneys' fees and $896.83 in costs and expenses it claims were expended on preparing and defending its fee application. This amount for attorneys' fees was calculated using 236.8 hours of attorneys' fees billed by Fabi for the fee application, which turns out to be nearly six 40-hour weeks of attorney time. In her response the Secretary contends that this length of time appears excessive for work done on the application, and we agree. See, e.g., American Wrecking Corporation v. Sec'y of Labor, 364 F.3d 321, 331 (D.C.Cir.2004) (three 40-hour weeks spent compiling attorneys' fees application found to be an excessive amount). We will therefore reduce the requested amount for attorneys' fees by half, see id., resulting in an amount of $18,795.30. For the same reason we will reduce by half the request for costs and expenses, resulting in an amount of $448.42.