For at least the second time in the span of a year a federal trial judge refused to let a major U.S. law firm keep hourly rates and other billing-related information secret as part of an effort in court to squeeze legal fees from an opponent.

Denied its bid for secrecy, one of the firms, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, last week resubmitted its attorney fee petition fully unredacted in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The other firm, King & Spalding, abandoned an effort last year in Washington’s federal trial court after a judge said he would unseal supporting records showing hourly rates if the firm wanted to press its fee request.

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