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BERNARDI v. YEUTTER

No. C 73 1110 SC.

754 F.Supp. 743 (1990)

Gene C. BERNARDI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Clayton YEUTTER, Secretary of Agriculture, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

January 5, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy T. Saperstein, Saperstein & Seligman, Oakland, Cal., Nancy L. Davis, Judith E. Kurtz, Equal Rights Advocates, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Kathryn D. Ray, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant.

ORDER

CONTI, District Judge.

The plaintiffs' attorneys' present petition for attorney fees involves a single motion for contempt. The petition represents a classic case of over-lawyering and unnecessary piling on of hours, attorneys and assistants. ONE SINGLE competent attorney could have handled the underlying motion in a minimum of hours.

An attorney owes a duty to his client to do competent work; but that does not include an unreasonable, unnecessary...

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