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Why they're whining and how they ended up with a monitor, too. I wonder if they have a gentlemen's agreement with other SiliValley companies not to hire each other's lawyers. |
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You can't really compare between those 2 sets of numbers. The median in Apple's numbers is the value at which 1/2 their lawyers got paid more and half got paid less. The Samsung number is the average rate so a couple of really expensive lawyers could drive it up.
Median and Average aren't the same thing. EDIT TO ADD: the more I think about this, the more likely it seems that Apple is using median because they have a bunch of really high priced lawyers and using median allows them to put out a much lower number than averaging them in. Last edited by robko; 12-02-2013 at 11:51 PM. |
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Does it really matter?
If generic partner-grade corporate trial lawyers run in the $600-800 range, an antitrust expert on monitor duty deep behind enemy lines charging $1000 (hazard pay included) seems well within bounds. So either Apple chintzes their legal staff or they're going back to the judge as a (dangerous) legal tactic. Either way, I'm looking forward to the Judge's (exasperated?) reply. |
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More at the source. Now to wait for the next episode in this farce. |
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Looks like the national press is picking this up.
Headline - Apple's Star Chamber - An abusive judge and her prsecutor friend besiege the tech maker. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...pinion_LEADTop Obviously the "any stick to beat Apple" crowd in this thread will dismiss such views since it doesn't fit their world view, but there really is, or should be a limit on what an individual judge can do. It will be interesting to watch the appeal process. Apparently, Cote is starting to back pedal a bit on her decree. |
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3 lawyers charging $100 each and 1 charging $1000 -> median = $100, mean = $325 You only need one outlier to greatly affect the mean, but not the median. |
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But, exactly how should a corporation who have been found guilty of price-fixing be treated? It seems reasonable to me that their day-to-day activities be monitored. I'm sorry that they don't like the fact that they have to pay for that monitoring and they don't like the fact that the monitor is asking for things they don't like, but hey... They could have settled like the rest of the defendants. They didn't and now they pay the price for their gamble. How do *you* think they should be treated? Last edited by jgaiser; 12-06-2013 at 06:47 PM. |
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Although I've never particularly cared for their slant on the news, they've become little more than a tabloid since the ironically named News Corp purchased them a few years ago.
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