Why do companies pay these large fees and not go to someone cheaper?

Next they'll show me a floor layout to justify their large fees.

Both he and his wife earned large fees last year from private speeches.

Others, though, said large fees allowed lawyers to take difficult cases.

Not if you plan to soak them for a very large fee.

But the biggest institutions, which pay the largest fees, applauded the approach.

Wall Street's cut, of course, comes in the large fees.

Instead, they must decide whether to apply for the certificate and pay a large fee.

It would have been, after all, the largest single fee earned by any firm in the history of the state.

In 2003, it paid $8.1 million, its largest fee that year.