(noting, in context of chapter 151B fee award, that “court may award attorneys!”] fees to a prevailing party even if the award includes fees for work on unsuccessful claims or issues”); Irish American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston v. City of Boston, 1994 WL 878945, *1 (Mass.Super. Nov. 18, 1994) (noting, in context of fee request under section nine of chapter 151B, that, “[T]he plaintiff is the prevailing party here in every relevant sense”); see also Dartt v. Browning-Ferris Industries, 427 Mass. 1, 691 N.E.2d 526, 532 (Mass.App.Ct.1998) (“judicial analyses of the ADA are helpful” to interpret handicap discrimination cases under chapter 151B); Westinghouse Elec. Supply Corp. v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, 1999 WL 140492, *7 (Mass.Super. March 5, 1999) (<HOLDING>). Before turning to a calculation of fees, this
recognizing that the aba guidelines and federal law are instructive holding that though mississippi law governs the amount of the fee award here because the factors considered under state and federal law are nearly identical both state and federal cases are instructive recognizing that analogous federal statutory provisions concerning fee awards are instructive in construing chapter 151b and that ada is federal counterpart to chapter 151b holding that federal court decisions construing and applying the federal arbitration act may be regarded as persuasive authority in construing and applying corresponding provisions of our local arbitration act holding that legislatures failure to qualify a definition though it knew how to do so is instructive in construing statutes intended meaning