I have worked with way more prominent appellate lawyers than that guy, and none of them charged anything near Cruz’s fee for the amount of work (negligible) he and his associates (not negligible, but still, we’re talking about like one week) performed in that case. It was a total money grab for zero value added.…

I had professional interaction with that scumbag while he was at Morgan Lewis. We hired him as appellate counsel due to his political ties on a big-money case that had gone off the rails. I wrote the fucking brief myself and he billed our client $250k for something like a week’s work, next to none of which was done by…