Weeks

Robert M. Vantress, Silicon Valley Law Group, for Martin R. Greenstein.

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Bernard A. Burk, Simon J. Frankel, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, John J. Bartko, Robert H. Bunzel, Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, San Francisco, for Baker & McKenzie.

Philip E. Kay, Sanford Jay Rosen, Lawrence A. Organ, Rosen, Bien & Asaro, Alan B. Exelrod, Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & True, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

STEIN, Associate Justice.

A jury found that Martin R. Greenstein, a partner in the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, sexually harassed his secretary, plaintiff Rena Weeks and awarded her $50,000 in compensatory damages from both Greenstein and Baker & McKenzie. The jury further awarded Weeks $225,000 in punitive damages from Greenstein and $6.9 million in punitive damages from Baker & McKenzie. The latter award was reduced to $3.5 million by the trial court. The court awarded Weeks $1,847,437.86 in attorney fees and expenses. This figure was calculated, in part, by fixing reasonable hourly fees for each legal professional representing Weeks, multiplying those figures by the number of hours reasonably devoted by the respective professional to…