The NYT has an article about Trump's lawyers and how much they've been paid.
His legal expenses will skyrocket over the next year. He's already spending more on legal bills than he's taking in via contributions. He will undoubtedly resort to even more shrill rhetoric as he desperately attempts to whip his congregation into a frenzy of campaign contributions.
Epshteyn is probably the most overpaid on the list. He has negative value. His mission is apparently to give Trump the worst possible advice and isolate him from competent legal counsel so that Trump will continue making the worst possible decisions.
Corcoran would probably be pretty decent if he had a halfway normal client (e.g. a Mafia boss) who actually listened, but Trump's antics make him look like a fool for agreeing to represent Trump in the first place.*
Kise and Lauro are probably two of the better ones on the list. Having said that, Trump seems to have a legal death wish and no one can save him from himself.
Todd Blanche
Fees: $353,000 paid to his firm from April to June 2023
Boris Epshteyn
Fees: $195,000 paid in 2022
Christopher M. Kise
Fees: $5.8 million in 2022 and the first six months of 2023
M. Evan Corcoran
Fees: $3.4 million in 2022 and the first half of 2023
Joe Tacopina
Fees: $1.7 million in the first half of 2023
Susan Necheles
Fees: $465,000 in the first half of 2023
Lindsey Halligan
Fees: $212,000 in 2022 and the first half of 2023
John Lauro
Fees: $288,000 in 2022 and the first half of 2023
Drew Findling
Fees: $816,000 in 2022 and the first half of 2023
Jennifer Little
Fees: $100,000
Donald Trump’s PACs have spent millions of dollars on a small army of lawyers to defend him in four separate federal and state criminal cases.
www.nytimes.com
*Corcoran is likely to be one the key witnesses against Trump in the Florida Documents/Obstruction case:
>>>Mr. Corcoran’s notes, first recorded into an iPhone and then transcribed on paper, essentially gave prosecutors a road map to building their case. Mr. Trump, according to the indictment, pressured Mr. Corcoran to thwart investigators from reclaiming reams of classified material and even suggested to him that it might be better to lie to investigators and withhold the documents altogether. . . . When
the indictment of Mr. Trump was unsealed on Friday, it became abruptly clear that the notes by Mr. Corcoran — identified as “Trump Attorney 1” — were far more extensive, and far more damaging, than previously known.
“What happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” Mr. Corcoran quotes Mr. Trump as saying at one point, referring to government officials seeking to enforce a subpoena demanding the return of the documents.<<<
M. Evan Corcoran, who was hired to represent the former president after the Justice Department issued a subpoena for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, could be a key witness in the trial.
www.nytimes.com