Five hundred dollars an hour — more than that, actually — is what medical school professors who whore for industry make; it is what doctors who whore for celebrities make; and it is what law firms who investigate filthy university sports programs make.
Does this seem a lot to you?
Put it in perspective. When the last president of Harvard University worked a one-day-a-week job for a hedge fund (while running Harvard), he made $20,000 a hour.
So the law firm investigating the SUNY Binghamton sports program and charging this public university $520 per hour is giving them a major break.
Not only that, but $520 an hour is “a 20 percent discount off the firm’s normal blended hourly rate.”
November 8th, 2009 at 2:46PM
As the old story goes. We’ve already established that you are a whore, we’re just haggling over the price.