Lots of news accounts and blogs have been mentioning the award of attorneys fees in the Heller litigation over the meaning of the Second Amendment. In a 65-page decision (which doesn't read nearly that long because of the font, double-spacing, and margins), the judge awarded the prevailing lawyers about 1/3 of what they had requested, netting them just over $1 million. The decision is very "inside baseball" in that the judge chooses between two different matrices that purport to show market rates for that kind of complex federal litigation. It might be useful for a PR class.
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