Under new york rates. i think you're looking at 15 lawyers, about 50 hours a week, you do the math and it's on average a hybrid rate of 700, 750 an hour, before you factor in mr. ryan who's probably billing 1,200 an hour. the burn rate is significant. probably about a half million dollars a week. many othriminano different than prosecutions. you have a defendant who starts off defiant, like michael cohen, who talks t he's willing to take a bullet for his coconspirator. all of a sudden the burn rate sets in, and you're put on an island by your co-conspirators, like what's happening with donald ...