Free Memorandum - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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AFFIDAVIT OF STEPHEN G. MONTOYA i
STATE OF ARIZONA )
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County of Maricopa )
Stephen G. Montoya, being first duly sworn upon his oath, deposes as follows:
1. I am an attorney duly licensed to practice law in the State of Arizona;
2. I represent Mr. Craig Tucker in Tucker v. City of Tempe, No. CIV 03-1425-
PHX-DGC;
3. 1 am a 1987 graduate of Yale Law School;
4. I was admitted to the practice of law by the Supreme Court of Arizona in 1988
and have been practicing law in Phoenix, Arizona since that time. I am also ‘
admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of
Arizona, the United States Court of Appeais for the Ninth Circuit, and the
Supreme Court of the United States;
5. Since being admitted to the practice of law in Arizona, I have focused my l
professional efforts on representing plaintiffs in federal civil rights litigation; ;
6. At least one-fifth of my practice since 1995 has consisted of rendering ppg
bono legal services to the poor and working poor;
7. The attorney time sheets submitted with this Application were kept by me in p
the ordinary course of my law practice.
8. I have carefully reviewed and revised the time sheets to exclude anytime that
I thought was not related to representing Mr. Tucker, any time that was not -
reasonable to charge a client, and anytime that i thought was not customarily
charged to a client paying an attorney on an houriy basis in this jurisdiction;
9. Based on my eighteen years of experience in practicing law in Phoenix--
including titigating several employment discrimination cases on behalf of
defendants at a large law firm in Phoenix-—l am very familiar with the
customary biiiing practices of attorneys and law firms in Phoenix;
10. I have carefully reviewed Mr. Tucker's Memorandum in Support of his Motion
, including all of the attachments thereto, and
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all factual statements contained therein are true and correct to the best of my Y
knowledge; o
11. l believe that both the 186.30 hours that l expended in representing ll/lr.
Tucker in connection with this lawsuit and my hourly rate of $275.00 are
reasonable and customary for lawyers of my age and experience litigating
similar cases in this jurisdiction;
12. I believe that this Application is especially reasonable given the fact that most
lawyers with my level of experience at large law firms in this jurisdiction
charge between $300.00 to $350.00 per hour, and this Application does maj `
request reimbursemen · A or copying charges, fax ch rges, messenger service
charges, or postage c sts. /_ /.
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SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 23 day of l\/lay 2006.
Notary gublic _,____ _ _
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