| Category |
Guidlines |
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| Communications |
3.5 hours |
| Record Review |
50 pp/hour |
| Motions |
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| Extension of Time |
0.5 hour |
| Augment |
1.5 hours |
| Other Motions |
reasonable time |
Appellant's Opening Brief
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Statement of Facts
|
1/2 record review time up to 10 hours |
| Briefed Issues |
|
| * Very Simple |
up to 4.0 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 |
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| Unbriefed Issues |
|
| * Low Simple |
up to 0.5 hour |
| * Simple |
0.5 hour |
| * Simple/Average |
>0.5 and <2.5 hours |
| * Average |
2.5 hours |
| * Average/Complex |
>2.5 hours and <5.0 hours |
| * Complex |
5.0 hours |
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| Reply Brief |
1/3 AOB recommendation |
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| Supplemental Brief |
AOB issue standards |
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| Review of Opposing Counsel Brief |
2.5 hours
(0 hours if Wende) |
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| Petitions |
|
| Habeas |
12.0 hours |
| Petition for Rehearing |
6.0 hours |
| Petition for Review |
10.0 hours |
| Other Petitions |
reasonable |
| Response or Answer |
reasonable |
| Review Response |
reasonable |
| Reply to Response |
1/3 of the petition time |
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| Oral Argument |
7.5 hours |
| Travel |
reasonable |
| Review Opinion |
1.5 hours (0.2 hour if Wende) |
| Administrative Tasks |
1.0 hour (line 22; only on final) |
| Other Services |
|
| Review Superior Court File |
2.0 hours |
| Consult Project |
4.0 hours (assisted cases);
2.0 hours (independent cases) |
| Misc. |
reasonable |
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| Associate Counsel |
same as attorney rate |
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| Expenses |
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| 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 Witness, Investigator, Translator, etc. |
actual cost,
up to local prevailing rate |
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