[njoubert]

$1500/hr to $2000/hr was the going rate for Stanford professors to be expert witnesses on patent law cases when i was consulting at DLA Piper.

[browningstreet]

I know someone who billed $1500/hr, 40+ hours week, for years.. doing DB work. He had been an employee, offshored himself, and when company needed his services.. that was the rate he established.