Page 30 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97188, * and reviewed their timekeeping records, id. ¶¶ 12, 16-23, and offers his expert opinion that both the combined Class Counsel lodestar calculation of $3,387,328.75, and the combined Class Counsel expense calculation of $133,358.39 are reasonable. Id. 1111. Mr. Knapton claims that the total time of 5,100 hours "is similar to the range of hours [he has] seen in other class actions that are resolved without trial." Id. ¶ 17. Mr. Knapton notes that the average billing rate for the Class Counsel attorneys and paralegals is $664.15 per hour, which he states "appears to be in the range of what New Jersey Courts have found to be reasonable in other class action matters." Id. ¶ 28 (citing cases). Mr. Knapton also observes that Class Counsel's [*70] requested billing rates have been approved in the Northern and Central District of California, the Southern District of Florida, and California state courts. Id. ¶¶ 31-37. Finally, Mr. Knapton compares the requested billing rates of Class Counsel attorneys with the "2015 Real Rate Report Snapshot" rates of the third quartile, of attorneys in similar positions at their firms (i.e., partner or associate), with similar levels of experience, in the same metropolitan areas.' Id. ¶¶ 43-49. Mr. Knapton also opines that class action lawyers who bill on a contingency basis are typically "awarded rates by courts at about 1.2 to 1.3 times the current, prevailing non-contingent rates because of the risk of contingency.", Id. ¶ 39. 6 The third quartile is the quartile between the median billing rate and the highest 25 percent of billing rates. ECF No. 86-91 44. 7 According to Mr. Knapton. the 2015 Real Rate Report Snapshot was created by TyMetrix/LegaMEW by compiling anonymized data on over 59.8 billion in legal fees billed and paid between 2012 and 2014 and was published by the Wolters Khmer Company. ECF No. 86-9 ¶ 43. 8 Although Mu Knapton builds this contingency multiplier into h