Let's not even talk about the $500 per hour part

I’m tired of thinking about the brief I’m supposed to be writing, so here are some interesting facts from the case:

• Number of years this has been in litigation: 11
• Number of courts that have been involved: 6 (TX probate, LA probate, CA bankruptcy, CA district, 9th Circuit, Supreme Court.)
• Number of published decisions rendered by these courts: 13
• Number of years since any of Anna Nicole’s lawyers have been paid: 10
• Number of lawyers working on the Anna Nicole team nearly full-time: 3?
• Average hourly rate for a partner in a law firm in CA: $500/hour
• Number of hours a partner could spend working on a case like this in a year: 1500?
• Extrapolating, amount Anna Nicole owes to her lawyers at these rates: $22.5 million
• Amount of original bankruptcy judgment in Anna Nicole’s favor: $449 million
• Amount of district court judgment in Anna Nicole’s favor: $44 million.
• Amount of 9th Circuit court judgment in Anna Nicole’s favor: $0.

Is it just me, or should her lawyers be really worried right about now? After all, this case arose out of bankruptcy proceedings- if she doesn’t win in the Supreme Court, they’re going to be eating just a HUGE legal bill.