ICANN’s travel spend rose by a staggering 85 per cent in 2014 to $17 million; 20 per cent of income Probably this was due to all the diplomatic effort and resources thrown at NetMundial, 1net, IGF, World Economic Forum meetings e.t.c. Taking care of all these delegates is no loose change. Did you hear Steve Crocker say Fadi travellef 400,000 miles. I expect this budget items yo go down this year. On Jun 25, 2015 6:55 PM, "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com> wrote:
Sean,
500k to date not per month.
Chuck
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-------- Original message -------- From: Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> Date:06/25/2015 5:42 PM (GMT-05:00) To: James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net> Cc: cwg-stewardship@icann.org Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Legal cost reality
With due respect James, I am in no way belittling the work of legal council. I am rather wondering how we as a community recognising this huge cost did not better strategize on how/when to engage external council. The amount that has been spent on all participants of the ccwg and cwg(for remote/physical meetings) would seem to be competing with the total cost of legal advice (perhaps legal would even be more).
The deed has been done and we can't rewrite history. My comment is targeted more on the fact that we need to think of how we engage legal more efficiently going forward.
For the record, when Greg said top notch council are expensive, 500k monthly is just beyond my imagination!
Regards
sent from Google nexus 4 kindly excuse brevity and typos. On 25 Jun 2015 18:23, "James Gannon" <james@cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
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: <cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Seun Ojedeji Date: Thursday 25 June 2015 18:15 To: "cwg-stewardship@icann.org" Subject: [CWG-Stewardship] Legal cost reality
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
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