Reasonable Attorneys’ Fees’ Expert when Attorney’s Fees are the Damages

Generally, when an attorney is. awarded attorney's fees, there is a mini-evidentiary hearing to determine the "reasonableness" of those fees. Another lawyer--the reasonable attorneys' fees' expert--opines that the rate and hours expended are reasonable. The opposing party then has its own expert to opine otherwise. Fairly archaic and ridiculous in my opinion. Others may disagree. Nevertheless, the reasonable fees' expert is how it is done with another attorney testifying that the fees incurred by the prevailing lawyer were "reasonable" fees. What if fees are the actual damages? In a recent case, Law Offices of Granoff & Kessler, P.A. v. Glass, 45 Fla. L....