Class Warfare: legal fees in Arizona

Ken Starr Too Expensive for Arizona from the Wall Street Journal law blog:

Arizona Republican legislative leaders have themselves a bit of a conundrum: They’d reportedly like to hire Ken Starr to handle a Supreme Court appeal, but they’re not sure if they can afford Starr, the former Whitewater prosecutor and current dean at Pepperdine’s School of Law. The state’s Department of Administration (now there’s an Orwellian name if we’ve ever heard of one) has decided it will only pay Starr up to $335 an hour. But Starr, who also serves in an “of counsel” position at Kirkland & Ellis’s Los Angeles office, charges $910 an hour.

This has nothing to do with the merits of Starr ... but my mind just is agog at the rate of $910.00 an hour or $7,280.00 a day! Or -- $36,400.00 a week -- so in a week he can make what some folks would be happy to see for a year's salary. The other attorney that will be working along side Starr, if he gets his fee and is hired, is and will be making the $335.00 max allowed by Arizona. From the AP article the WSJlinks to:

Though Starr would represent the legislative leaders in the U.S. Supreme Court appeal of a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Republican legislative leaders plan to still use Phoenix attorney David Cantelme in proceedings that continue in the case in U.S. District Court in Tucson.
Cantelme is paid $325 an hour.

But you know, at least these guys are actually doing something to earn the dollars. I am not too fond of the gucci shopping dudes who do nothing but speculate in futures. So what do you all think? Worth every cent?