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Love the footnote that Sotheby’s disputes that the 1.5 million in fees owed to Skadden are all related to UK litigation. One wonders how he accrued that much in fees.

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I’ve been doing the math - my bosses hourly rates range $485 <—to Jr Associate to $1,290 <— Sr Partner/principle - my contractual rate is about $285- even if they had an entire department within Skadden billing an average hourly rate of <$900 that would mean collectively the firm billed Rybolovlev over 1,600 hours. It’s feasible but it seems unbelievably on the high end. My client/employer has just over 1K in attorneys—they aren’t as big as Skadden but even my boss was like - did they bill him on the 5minute versus the standard 15 minute increment. Assuming arguendo the billing is accurate >1.57+M for about 60 days work —> I have questions

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did you pay more than $1 to pull information? hahaha

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LOLS 💀 just 💀 -well played my friend - well played indeed

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