Nautilus Marine Enterprises, Inc., Appellant v. Exxon Mobil Corporation and Exxon Shipping Company, Appellees

Summary

The court held that attorney fee awards under Alaska Civil Rule 82 should ordinarily use local market rates and that out-of-state rates require extraordinary circumstances, which were absent here. It upheld the superior court’s determinations concerning the reasonableness of hours billed, fee enhancement, discovery sanctions, and cost items, but required apportionment of fees and costs between Nautilus and the settling co-defendant. The case was reversed and remanded for recalculation using local rates and for apportionment.