[CCWG-ACCT] Expenses

[Drazek, Keith]

+1 James.

There are very legitimate reasons the CCWG's legal costs are what they are. They are not self-inflicted. Let's keep our eye on the ball.

Regards,
Keith


On Oct 19, 2015, at 11:15 AM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net<mailto:james at cyberinvasion.net>> wrote:

Speaking in my personal capacity I find some of the accusations underlying this comment to be way off base.
Our counsel are working hard, they are working efficiently they are working to try an assist us however they can. Please lets not devolve their work to how many memos per week we are receiving or hours are being worked.

As someone who has had the experience of engaging external counsel in my day job, its not cheap if you want good counsel. If we really feel that we don’t need the best legal expertise available to us in order to assist us in this journey then I would suggest we need to do some soul searching.

Can we please end the unneeded discussion on this and get back to the work that we have to do before Dublin ends. Im getting tired of it being brought up over and over again.

-James

From: <accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Seun Ojedeji
Date: Monday 19 October 2015 at 10:51 a.m.
To: "accountability-cross-community at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>"
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Expenses

That said, it is my hope that we are paying close attention to the Legal costs that seem to be growing significantly. There absolute need to engage the external council more directly with more certainty/specificity in our requirements. Maybe we should also be sure to check whether external council are really maximizing the working hours in presenting what we really require/requested and not what will make us have to spend more working legal hours.

Again i like to formerly put on the table that the huge legal cost this process is incurring is unwarranted considering the advices has necessarily helped us in achieving consensus on various issues.
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