The Church's Legal Tab: $11.6 Million in 2011-2012
Every day for the past ten weeks, Msgr. William J. Lynn has been accompanied to trial by four full-time defense lawyers. A conservative estimate is that the archdiocese is spending $75,000 a week on those four defense lawyers, or $750,000 for the past ten weeks of trial.
But the costs of the archdiocese's legal bill is much higher than that. In the archd…