| Category |
Guidlines |
 |
|
| Communications |
3.5 hours |
| Record Review |
50 pp/hour |
| Motions |
|
| Extension of Time |
0.5 hour |
| Augment |
1.5 hours |
| Other Motions |
reasonable time |
Appellant's Opening Brief
|
|
Statement of Facts
|
1/2 record review time up to 10 hours |
| Briefed Issues |
|
| * Very Simple |
up to 2.5 hours |
| * Simple |
4.0 hours |
| * Simple/Average |
>4 hours and <8.0 hours |
| * Average |
8.0 hours |
| * Average/Complex |
>8 hours and <13.5 hours |
| * Complex |
13.5 hours |
| * Complex Plus |
+13. 5 hours |
| Unbriefed Issues |
|
| * Simple |
0.5 hour |
| * Average |
2.5 hours |
| * Complex |
5.0 hours |
| Reply Brief |
1/3 AOB recommendation |
| Supplemental Brief |
AOB issue standards |
| Review of Opposing Counsel Brief |
2.5 hours
(0 hours if Wende) |
| Petitions |
|
| Habeas |
12.0 hours |
| Petition for Rehearing |
6.0 hours |
| Petition for Review |
10.0 hours |
| Other Petitions |
reasonable |
| Review Response |
reasonable |
| Reply to Response |
1/3 of the petition time |
| Oral Argument |
7.5 hours |
| Travel |
reasonable |
| Review Opinion |
1.5 hours (0.2 hour if Wende) |
Administrative Tasks
Line 22 of claim form
Can only be paid on final claim
|
1.0 hour |
| Other Services |
|
| Review Superior Court File |
2.0 |
| Consult Project |
4.0 hours (assisted cases)
2.0 hours (independent cases) |
| Misc. |
reasonable |
| Associate Counsel |
same as attorney rate |
| Expenses |
|
| Photocopying |
$0.10 per page |
| Postage |
actual, if reasonable |
| Telephone |
actual, if reasonable |
| Travel |
state employee travel rules |
| Computerized Research |
ordinary research not compensable |
| Paralegal/Law Clerk |
$25 per hour |
Expert Witneses,
Investigator, Translator, Etc. |
actual cost
up to local prevailing rate |