>My cost estimate is probably on the high side :) Well, at least here, you cannot confuse "missed income" with "costs". If you are payed (or can be payed) 700

>My cost estimate is probably on the high side :) Well, at least here, you cannot confuse "missed income" with "costs". If you are payed (or can be payed) 700 US$/hour, you should be in a range of around 1,400,000 US$/year of revenue. On this you pay taxes and you have (or should have) some costs, even if minimal. I wouldn't be surprised if, once you have detracted those, you remain with US$ 350/hour (half of the revenue). Then what you can spend (and that you can consider as cost) is US$ 350/hour. And you cannot really consider the "stress and sleepless nights" as "cost", come on, this is what may eventually be "moral damages", and 5/6 days to make a binder with 150 pages? If we take the 350 US$/hour as cost, you have managed in 6 x 10 = 60 hours 150 pages, let's double them to 300 including the ones you discarded, that is 5 pages per hour or less than 1 page every 10 minutes or US$ 70 each for just reading and printing or photocopying a sheet of paper and putting in t in a binder, I understand the tabs, Exhibit A, etc. still ... Realistically it cannot take more than 20 hours at the very most to assemble such a binder. 8 days at court, 10 hours each, 80 hours + 20 hours, still 100 hours at the most, and these should be multiplied by 350 , not 700.