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Ted Stevens' Attorney Fees at Least $1 Million
The National Law Journal
May 18, 2009
Nobody's ever said Ted Stevens' defense team would come cheap. Stevens paid his lawyers at Williams & Connolly between $1 million and $5 million, according to a financial disclosure report the former Alaska senator filed this month with the Senate Ethics Committee.
Williams & Connolly partner Brendan Sullivan Jr. won the Stevens case after a jury handed him a loss back in October. Several other partners, including Rob Cary, Alex Romaine and Craig Singer, were counsel of record in the case. At least several associates, including Beth Stewart, were part of the team. Click here to pull up a copy of Stevens' financial disclosure report.
Stevens also includes in the disclosure report that he spent between $50,000 and $100,000 on attorney fees at Utrecht & Phillips, which formed after the split up of Ryan, Phillips, Utrecht & MacKinnon. William Phillips and Carolyn Utrecht were not immediately reached for comment Friday.
In the Stevens filing, the former senator brings up the government prosecution and the disputed value of renovation work done at his home in Girdwood, Alaska. Prosecutors alleged Stevens failed to report more than $250,000 in gifts and home renovations.
"The value of these alleged gifts or liabilities, whether or not they were gifts or liabilities, my alleged knowledge of who did what and the extent to which I believed they were paid for were contested at trial," Stevens wrote in an attachment to his filing.
Stevens notes that the indictment has been dismissed against him "because the Justice Department withheld evidence that was favorable to me. I am not in a position at this time to know what, if any, money I owe on account of work performed at my Girdwood home."
This article first appeared on The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.
