"attorney's fee" meaning in English

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        "The fee charged by an attorney for work done in relation to a lawsuit or other work done by an attorney."
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        "(law) The fee charged by an attorney for work done in relation to a lawsuit or other work done by an attorney."
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          "ref": "2018 October 10, Matthew Goldstein, “Law Firm’s Fee Settlement Could Shake Up Securities Class Actions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-10, Business Day",
          "text": "In March 2017, the judge appointed a special master — the former federal judge Gerald E. Rosen — to look into the appropriateness of the fee package, including the issues of double-counting attorney hours spent on the case and the reasonableness of the rates charged by the lawyers. But during a 14-month investigation, Mr. Rosen made a startling discovery: Labaton had paid a lawyer in Texas a finder’s fee equal to 20 percent of the attorneys’ fee it received in the litigation.",
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        "An amount set by a court to be awarded to a prevailing party based on the reasonable fee that their attorney should have charged, based on the length and complexity of the case."
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        "(law) An amount set by a court to be awarded to a prevailing party based on the reasonable fee that their attorney should have charged, based on the length and complexity of the case."
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        "The fee charged by an attorney for work done in relation to a lawsuit or other work done by an attorney."
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        "(law) The fee charged by an attorney for work done in relation to a lawsuit or other work done by an attorney."
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          "text": "In March 2017, the judge appointed a special master — the former federal judge Gerald E. Rosen — to look into the appropriateness of the fee package, including the issues of double-counting attorney hours spent on the case and the reasonableness of the rates charged by the lawyers. But during a 14-month investigation, Mr. Rosen made a startling discovery: Labaton had paid a lawyer in Texas a finder’s fee equal to 20 percent of the attorneys’ fee it received in the litigation.",
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        "(law) An amount set by a court to be awarded to a prevailing party based on the reasonable fee that their attorney should have charged, based on the length and complexity of the case."
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