attorney's fee

English

Alternative forms

• attorneys' fee

Noun

attorney's fee

1. (law) The fee charged by an attorney for work done in relation to a lawsuit or other work done by an attorney.
2. (law) An amount set by a court to be awarded to a prevailing party based on the reasonable fee that their attorney should have charged, based on the length and complexity of the case.
   • 2018 October 10, Matthew Goldstein, “Law Firm’s Fee Settlement Could Shake Up Securities Class Actions”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 October 2018, Business Day‎^[2]:

     In March 2017, the judge appointed a special master — the former federal judge Gerald E. Rosen — to look into the appropriateness of the fee package, including the issues of double-counting attorney hours spent on the case and the reasonableness of the rates charged by the lawyers. But during a 14-month investigation, Mr. Rosen made a startling discovery: Labaton had paid a lawyer in Texas a finder’s fee equal to 20 percent of the attorneys’ fee it received in the litigation.