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Georgia Water Litigator to Get $855 an Hour
ATLANTA (AP) The new attorney handling Georgia's appeal in the long-running legal battle with Alabama and Florida over water rights will be paid $855 an hour.
Gov. Sonny Perdue's office said Friday that Seth Waxman's hourly rate is a 10 percent discount off his normal rate of $950 an hour.
Waxman is a former U.S. solicitor general who was tapped this week to replace Paul Clement after he had to withdraw because of a possible conflict of interest.
Waxman is leading the state's appeal of a federal judge's ruling in July that concluded it was illegal for Atlanta to draw drinking water from Lake Lanier, the city's main water supply. The judge gave Georgia and the other states three years to work out a deal involving the reservoir.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
What others are saying
- Let's all crank up the "wealth envy" bandwagon. The amount of money that hangs on this case is so much that at $1k an hour this is a bargain.As a matter of fact it might be we've hired a Walmart lawyer to do a Nieman Marcus job.
- Georgia Water Litigator?Georgia is bankrupt. The economy sucks. I work with attorneys every day of the year. There are many great attorneys that are much less expensive. When will our government learn to stop spending so much money.
- lawyer feesYOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING. Thre has already been millions spent, and no one is even considering what the judge wrote in his ruling. Atlanta has not a chance in H***l of winning this, but dredging Morgan falls lake is according to the judges ruling is OK. Spend the dollars there instead of wasting it on the Governer's buddy lawyer. Do something positive towards resolving the water issue instead of this waste
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