[ratzoe]

$650 per hour is fairly typical for high caliber, big city lawyers.

Absolutely right, wife is a law secretary and 650 an hour is dead on. Avennati wants those 509 hours charged at his rate of $50 an hour..

[KevinB]

Avennati wants those 509 hours charged at his rate of $50 an hour..

Avennati is a sleazy plaintiff lawyer, basically the bottom of the barrel where it comes to lawyers, and takes his cases on a contingency basis. He has gotten lucky and done well on a couple of those cases, but has lived well above his means, has stolen from his partners and hasn't paid his taxes. He is consequently is a world of hurt financially. Desperate people do desperate things and we have seen a lot of that out of him the last year or so.