ALLOWANCE OF FEES
FACTS: Petnrs have retained numerous attys to represent them in connection with the numerous complexities of the MJJ Business, its structure and the worldwide litigation, as well as the probate administration. Each law firm serves a distinct purpose and petnrs and their counsel have endeavored to avoid the duplication of efforts. Petnrs' legal team consists of the Ziffren Firm as general entertainment counsel, Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker, APC and Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP as probate counsel (the Weitzman Firm is also general litigation counsel). Greenberg Traurig, LLP deals with issues relating to trademark. copyright and publicity rights worldwide (incl, without limitation, filing trademark applications, investigating registrations and bringing claims or overseeing litigation overseas), entertainment and corporate related matters, and various litigation matters. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP also represents the Estate in litigation matters. Venable L LP handles corporate and financing matters. In addition, petnrs have engaged other attys with particular
expertise and who are authorized to practice in the jurisdictions where issues have arisen, to address certain specific matters, such as trademark issues in England, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Colombia, Spain, and Benelux, corporate matters, and copyright infringement issues. Counsel for petnrs have rendered extraordinary svcs fbo estate, which svcs are described in the decls that will be filed or lodged with the court.
RELIEF:
1) JTD atty fees to Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker, APC of $313,636.66 in addition to the $731,818.84 paid on account pursuant to this
Court's 2010 Orders, for a total of $1,045,455.50 for legal services rendered for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, and reimbursement in the amount of $11,733.68 for costs advanced
2) JTD atty fees to Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP of $696,340.27 in addition to the $2,114,993.69 paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of $2,811,333.96 for legal services rendered for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement in the amount of $68,119.21 for costs advanced
3) JTD atty fees to Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP of $503.864.40 in addition to the $1,251,742.43 paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of $1,755,606.83 for legal services rendered for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement in the amount of $79,174.33 for costs advanced
4) JTD atty fees to Venable LLP of $73,314.35 in addition to the $173,955.79 paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of $247,270.14 for legal services rendered for the10-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement in the amount of $2,214.14 for costs advanced.
5) JTD atty fees to Greenberg Traurig LLP of $185,835.44 in addition to the $839,780.38 paid on acct pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of $1,025,615.82 for legal services rendered for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement in the amount of $225,232.32 for costs advanced, including amounts paid on account for reasonable fees advanced
6) JTD atty fees to Arnold & Porter (UK) of 47,091.45 pounds in addition to the 121,640 pounds paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of 168,731.45 pounds for legal services rendered in the UK for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement of 11,759.95 pounds for costs advanced
7) JTD atty fees to TMI Firm of 1,567,933 yen for legal services rendered in Japan for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement in the amount of 1,705 yen for costs advanced
8) JTD atty fees to Mori Hamada & Matsumoto of 4,017,150.02 yen in addition to the 11,144.359.98 paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of 15,161,510 for legal svcs rendered in Japan for 4-mo period from 10/31/12, up to and incl 2/28/13, which includes
reimbursement in the amount of 271,010 yen for costs advanced
9) JTD atty fees to Noerr LLP in amount of 39,500.93 euros addition to the 102,413.98 euros paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of 141,914.91 euros for legal services rendered in Germany for the 13-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, which includes reimbursement in the amount of 10,245.10 euros for costs advanced. Also to the Noerr Firm, for services rendered in Spain, 14,624.25 euros in addition to the 36,845.76 euros paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders, for a total of 51,470.001 for legal svcs rendered for the same period, including reimbursement in the amount of 2,722.51 euros for costs advanced
10) JTD atty fees to Franklin Weinrib Rudell & Vassallo of $21,378 for legal services rendered for the 16-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 3/31/12, all of which was paid on account pursuant this Court's 2010 Orders
11) JTD atty fees to Jones Day of $47,427.50 for legal services for the 13-mo period form 12/1/11, up to and incl 12/31/12, and
reimbursement in the amount of $975.55 for costs advanced, for a total billed of $48,403.05, all of which was paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders.
12) JTD atty fees to Lavely & Singer of $2,940 for legal svcs for 12-mo period from 12/1/11, up to and incl 11/30/12, all of which was paid on account pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders
13) JTD atty fees to Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C. of $26,244 in addition to the $61,726.50 paid on ccount pursuant to this Court's 2010 Orders for a total of $88,006.50 for legal services rendered through 12/31/12
15) JTD atty fees to Albright Stoddard of $690 for legal services relating to property and proceedings in Nevada, all of which was paid
on account pisuant to this Court' 2010 Orders
PA COMMENTS: GAL fee petn on cal at 10:00 a.m.; this matter to be trailed to 10:00 to meet? o/w JTDs 5, 10 & 11 were deferred to this date; unclear whether JTD 7 was ruled upon - see note in < > at JTD 7 from prior m.o. - T/T