Our legal advice has been critical to our process and Sidley have been crucial to our successes.

I think we should be thanking them for their service, and yes top notch legal services are not cheap.

It is most certainly something that I have no issue with the community exercising its prudence over however lets not limit ourselves in any way to engage with our counsel.

-James

From: <accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Seun Ojedeji
Date: Thursday 25 June 2015 18:20
To: "accountability-cross-community@icann.org"
Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Fwd: Legal cost reality

Hi,

Over 500k USD a month for legal is sure not how someone like me from developing region would like to see ICANN spend it's resources.
It's my hope that this working group Co-Chairs would be sensitive of that fact!

Regards
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Seun Ojedeji" <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com>
Date: 25 Jun 2015 18:15
Subject: Legal cost reality
To: <cwg-stewardship@icann.org>
Cc:

Hi,

I hope those who want to always push issues to external legal advice would appreciate the need to be strategic and prudent about this. Over 500,000USD already spent on Sidley is definitely not what we like ICANN to keep spending it's resources on.

Regards

sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.