(B) Deadline for an Entitlement Motion. The deadline for moving for a determination of entitlement is 14 days after the entry of the judgment or, if there is no judgment, 14 days after the case is closed. An appeal does not extend the deadline unless the Court so orders.
(C) Maintaining Time Records. No award of attorney’s fees will be made based in whole or part on time devoted to a case unless the attorney or other timekeeper made a contemporaneous, detailed record of the time to the nearest tenth hour. A detailed record must provide enough information to allow the Court to evaluate reasonableness; an entry like “research” or “conference” without a description of the subject will not do.
(D) Filing and Disclosing Time Records. Unless an assigned judge orders otherwise, the time records must not be filed with the Clerk until necessary for the determination of a fee motion. But a party must promptly disclose to another party — on a request made at any time — the total number of hours that have been devoted to the case by the party’s attorneys and other timekeepers through the end of the month preceding the request.
(E) Required Filings in Support of a Motion to Determine the Fee Amount. If the Court determines that a party is entitled to a fee award, the party must file within 30 days:
(2) A declaration of an independent attorney addressing the reasonableness of the claimed time and rates.
(G) Additional Conference and Notice. After a party files a memorandum in opposition to the motion to determine the fee amount, the attorneys must confer again in a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute — on amount if not also on entitlement. The parties must file a notice of whether they have reached any agreement. The deadline for the notice is 14 days after the memorandum in opposition was filed.
