[CCWG-ACCT] Expenses

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

James,

that's the most junior of the ALAC types talking, not worth to spend
a second's thought on, they'll change their position as the wind blows.


As one having been extremely critical from the beginning and being
critical now, I find our counsel competent, hard working and worth
every penny.

el

On 2015-10-19 07:14 , James Gannon 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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