The lockout threatening to scuttle the 2011-2012 season for the National Basketball Association entered a perilous new phase last week, as the league postponed training camps and canceled 43 preseason games when talks between owners and the players’ union over a new collective bargaining agreement hit a snag.

With negotiations tentatively set to resume Tuesday, The Am Law Daily was left pondering one of its favorite topics: How much are the two sides spending on lawyers as they attempt to strike a new labor pact?