District Court Slashes Attorney Fees After Wilmer Hale and Wiley Rein Win $90M Lawsuit

A relator’s attempt to recover legal fees has prompted Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to issue an opinion lambasting amounts charged by Wilmer Hale and Wiley Rein, and attaching 74 pages of appendices outlining their billing rates — and reductions the court is making to them.