Lawyer fees for Big East suit averaging $157,000 per week

This article says the lawyer bill for the lawsuit brought by the remaining schools in the Big East was more than $2 million for the period from May 26 to August 31 of 2003. The Atlantic Coast Conference was dropped from the lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court, for lack of personal jurisdiction. Virginia Tech was originally one of the plaintiffs in the case, before the ACC changes its mind and voted to add Tech as a new member.