Young Lawyers The following headlines described some lawyers within the past year: “Did [a convicted fraudster’s] 147-Member Legal Team Expense $529 Gummy Bears?” The New York Times (Dec. 22, 2025) (noting that lawyers billed for “nutritional supplements, lamps and 57 hotel room upgrade charges at $300 apiece; “during the trial, … 29 so-called timekeepers [at five law firms] — lawyers and others who might bill by the hour – were in the courtroom.”).