Attorney Fees
Al Franken Outspends Opponent on Legal Fees by 6-1
Posted Feb 11, 2009, 08:02 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The legal battle over an election recount waged by former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken has cost him $660,000 in legal fees, six times the amount spent by his opponent for the U.S. Senate.
Franken is represented by Perkins Coie and Fredrikson & Byron, the Am Law Daily reports. The legal fees were reported to the Federal Election Commission.
Norm Coleman has spent $105,000 on legal fees paid to Knaak and Kantrud and Dorsey & Whitney, the story says.
Franken and Coleman are visiting Washington, D.C., this week as the election contest “plods on” before a three-judge state panel, according to the Washington Post’s blog The Fix.
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