Since he was not so "good" and tried to manipulate the ebook market in the US, a judge decided that a lawyer should monitor the company's activity Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), after it was sued for its ebook sales strategy. The man in the picture is called Bromwich, and for the first two weeks of monitoring the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, billed to those from Cupertino the amount of $138,432, a colossal one even for Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, a company used to paying tens or maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars annually to lawyers.
Bromwich's invoice for his first two weeks of work was $138,432, the equivalent of 75 percent of a federal judge's annual salary, Apple said in its filing, which described the administrative surcharge as "unprecedented in Apple's experience. Mr. Bromwich appears to be simply taking advantage of the fact that there is no competition here or, in his view, any ability on the part of Apple, the subject of his authority, to push back on his demands," lawyers for Cupertino, California-based Apple said in the filing.
The lawyer billed himself $1100 for each hour spent working on the Apple case, adding another 15% as an "administrative" amount, the total being $1265 per hour billed to Apple. The total of $138,432 represents approximately 75% of the annual salary of a federal judge, and those from Apple are now asking that the amount be reduced to a normal value, but it remains to be seen if the judge presiding over the case will agree.
