Question For The Lawyers

Let’s use Paul Manafort; what are his estimated monthly lawyer fees? How many lawyers would he need, how many investigators? What are other expenses he would be liable for?

Who knows?

Likely answer: ****loads upon ****loads.





Sounds like he's lived a lifetime of shady dealing. The amount of discovery alone (evidence prosecution may use at trial) is likely to be utterly astounding.

I had a colleague who worked for Jay Carney's firm when they handled the Whitey Bulger appeal. I obviously cannot go into any real details, but we're talking at least 500,000 sheets of paper. Either hundreds or perhaps even 1,000+ hrs of tape. (This was also reported in the news so I'm not disclosing anything I shouldn't).[/I] It did not sound fun.

So much as creating a strategy for reviewing, cataloguing, etc., the material would have been its own nightmare.

Mr Person said:

Who knows?

Likely answer: ****loads upon ****loads.





Sounds like he's lived a lifetime of shady dealing. The amount of discovery alone (evidence prosecution may use at trial) is likely to be utterly astounding.

I had a colleague who worked for Jay Carney's firm when they handled the Whitey Bulger appeal. I obviously cannot go into any real details, but we're talking at least 500,000 sheets of paper. Either hundreds or perhaps even 1,000+ hrs of tape. (This was also reported in the news so I'm not disclosing anything I shouldn't).[/I] It did not sound fun.

So much as creating a strategy for reviewing, cataloguing, etc., the material would have been its own nightmare.

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I've heard that the documents in manaforts case are past that number if memory serves. They had reports today that his trial was delayed so that his lawyers could go over 120,000 recently added documents. Which tells me we are talking about a couple hundred thousand documents in total ( I would guess). Paying a lawyer 500-1000 bucks an hour to go through those would build up to a fortune very quickly. We are talking a **** load after a few weeks, much less months of prep and a trial.

Rexedgar said:

Let’s use Paul Manafort; what are his estimated monthly lawyer fees? How many lawyers would he need, how many investigators? What are other expenses he would be liable for?

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Manafort and I aren't on speaking terms so I don't know, but it can easily run into the millions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walter...a-white-collar-criminal-defense/#48b4b17310bd

I am guesstimating at 400-500 an hour