[yen223]

First of all, that $1k per hour was pulled out of my ass. That was my piss-poor attempt at using humour to point out that people tend to underestimate someone else's value just because we don't understand their profession. I'm pretty sure a lawyer's work involves more than "blame-shifting".

Secondly, $1000/hour works out to about $240,000 per month. It's a high figure, but I have worked on a 3-month project that cost the client $1,000,000 before. Granted it wasn't a 1-man job, and God only knows I didn't get to see much of that money, but still, that was how much the client was billed for.