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Page 29 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97188, * Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP reports a total of 509.6 billable hours from eight attorneys and two paralegals with billing rates between $240 and $750 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $335,975.00. ECF No. 86-2 ¶ 7 (listing billing rates and hours billed of individual attorneys and paralegals). The firm also reports litigation expenses of $9,626.66. Id. ¶ 11. Markun Zusman Freniere & Compton, LLP reports a total of 976.50 billable hours from eight attorneys and one paralegal with billing rates between $250 and $650 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $574,325.00. ECF No. 86-3 ¶ 7. The firm also reports litigation expenses of $47,192.00. Id. ¶ 11. Kiesel Law LLP reports a total of 1,572.1 billable hours from ten attorneys and six paralegals with billing rates between $150 r67] and $1,100 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $756,859.50. ECF No. 86-4 ¶ 7. The firm also reports litigation expenses of $30,568.95. Id. ¶ 11. Morgan & Morgan, PA reports a total of 38.3 billable hours from one attorney with a billing rate of $900 per hour and 84.2 billable hours from one paralegal with a billing rate of $150 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $47,100.000. ECF No. 86-5 ¶ 17. The firm also reports litigation expenses of $1,455.56. Id. Raymond Boucher, currently of the Law Office of Raymond Boucher, APC and Boucher, LLP, and formerly of Khorrami Boucher Sumner, LLP and Khorrami Boucher, LLP, reports (a) a total of 952.9 billable hours from one attorney at the Law Office of Raymond Boucher, APC at billing rates between $925 and $1,100 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $1,039,947.50, ECF No. 86-6 ¶ 36, along with expenses of $7,100.12, id. ¶ 37; (b) a total of 147.8 billable hours from four attorneys, one law clerk, and one paralegal at Boucher, LLP at billing rates between $185 and $750 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $92,792.50, id. 1140, along with expenses of $16,601.82, id. ¶ 41; and (c) a total of 269.2 billable hours from eight attorneys p681 and one law clerk at Khorrami Boucher Sumner, LLP and/or Khorrami Boucher, LLP at billing rates between $185 and $625 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $139,078.25, id. ¶ 44, along with expenses of $17,003.15. Id. 1145., Ahdoot & Wolfson, PC reports a total of 349.2 billable hours from seven attorneys at billing rates between $415 and $810 per hour, for a total lodestar amount of $235,408.50. ECF No. 86-7 ¶ 7. The firm also reports litigation expenses of $3,303.86. Id. ¶ 11. PinilisHalpern, LLP reports a total of 193.90 billable hours from one attorney at a billing rate of $625 per hour, for a lodestar amount of $121,187.50. ECF No. 86-81f 7. The firm also reports litigation expenses of $516.27. Id. ¶ 11. The attorneys represent that Boucher, LLP, lead Class Counsel, reviewed time records from the other Class Counsel firms "for accuracy and removal or time that, although incurred, the lawyers determined in their discretion should not be included in this fee application." ECF No. 86-2 ¶ 6. 5 Due to a default judgment and court-appointed receivership in New York State Supreme Court against Khorrami Boucher Sumner Sanguinetti. LLP and/or Khorrami Boucher, LLP, Mr. Boucher seeks an r691 award of only 68% of the lodestar amount for work performed by those firms. ECF No. 66-61146. b. The Knapton Declaration Plaintiffs also submit a declaration from Gerald G. Knapton of the law firm Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley. Decl. Gerald G. Knapton in Support. P. Mot. Attorneys' Fees, ECF No. 86-9. Mr. Knapton declares that he is an expert on "the reasonableness and necessity of attorneys' fees," id. ¶ 2, states that he interviewed Class Counsel attorneys For internal use only CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0064708 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00210892 EFTA01371371