The sheer size of the Boy Scouts case and the scope of sexual abuse are factors in the high costs of fees for everyone from attorneys to financial advisers. They could share $1 billion; survivors are likely to receive $10,000 or less.
The sheer size of the Scouts case and the scope of abuse – spanning the country and dating back almost to the group’s inception – are factors in the high costs. So is the organization’s complexity.
“Now we have a very specialized bar, an extremely well-organized bar, with firms whose names are made in this type of work,” Reilly said. The hourly rates charged by firms representing Boy Scouts are significantly higher than those charged by lawyers representing the Catholic church. The average rate charged by White & Case to Boy Scouts has been about $900 an hour. For the main law firm in the Saint Paul Archdiocese case, one of the larger Catholic diocese cases, it was below $500.
Six months later, it filed for bankruptcy and claimed Delaware federal court as the proper venue for all its subsidiaries to file for Chapter 11 protection as well.
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