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¦ From $200K on PAGE 19 R. Stanton Jones laid out the bill-
The filing also said that during ing rates for the participating
settlement negotiations, Arnold attorneys, saying he and fellow
& Porter provided DOJ with de- partner Elisabeth Theodore each
tails on the total costs and fees A new filing lays out the typically bill $990 an hour. Jones

created through the litigation. behind-the-scenes work spent eight hours working on the
“After reviewing this information case, while Theodore spent more
the government agreed that the attorneys did in the case, than 49 hours.
amount stated in the settlement where Trump officials
agreement reflected Plaintiffs’ eventually admitted to Graham White, the associate
reasonable fees and costs,” the who argued the case, spent nearly
brief reads. making false statements 100 hours on the case and has a
in court—as well as the standard billing rate of $750 per

lawyers’ billing rates.

The Arnold & Porter attorneys hour, as does associate Janine Lo-
also reiterated that, because the pez, who clocked in at more than
attorneys took on the case pro 45 hours, according to the decla-
bono, the funds would be given ration.
to the “Arnold & Porter Foundation, a charity that Senior associate Andrew Tutt, who worked on
a tax-exempt charitable organization that provides the litigation for 28.5 hours, typically bills $875 an
funding for fellowships for recent law school gradu- hour; another senior associate Stephen Wirth, who
ates, scholarships to underrepresented law students, worked on the case for a little more than 11 hours,
and grants to other charitable and educational orga- has a billing rate of $850 an hour.
nizations.” Two other associates involved in the court fight—
This settlement comes after the Justice Depart- Sean Mirski and Kolya Glick—each bill $750 an
ment last year agreed to a $2.7 million payout to hour and spent five-and-a-half and three hours on
Arnold & Porter and the ACLU in a New York- the case, respectively.
based lawsuit over the Trump administration’s failed ¦

attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Jacqueline Thomsen, based in Washington, is a re-
census. porter covering D.C. federal courts and the legal
In the DHS litigation, six attorneys at the firm side of politics. Contact her at jathomsen@alm.
worked on the case. In a declaration, partner com and follow her on Twitter @jacq_thomsen.

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specifically personal injury lawyers—amid the global pandemic.
COVID-19, lawyers say.
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solo practitioners and operators of small firms, said “They tell me they’ve lost their groove and their
Connecticut personal injury attorney Leslie Gold structure. I even have an attorney friend who is cur-

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