Legal experts say Hunter Biden spends up to $1 million a month on lawyers.
President Joe Biden’s 53-year-old son and his team of top lawyers are preparing to fight his gun charges and have filed at least four lawsuits.
They are pursuing those allegedly involved in the distribution of his infamous laptop that he left behind. It contains a wealth of sordid – and potentially incriminating – material about the escapades of the reformed crack addict.
Attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, 85, estimates that Hunter spends about $1 million a month on his legal team.
He noted that top lawyers in New York and Washington charge up to $2,000 an hour for lead counsel, and the first son’s lead attorney, Abbe Lowell, charges a similar fee.
Legal experts say Hunter Biden spends up to $1 million a month on lawyers
Attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, 85, estimates that Hunter spends about $1 million a month on his legal team
He pointed out that top lawyers in New York and Washington charge up to $2,000 an hour for lead counsel, and the first son’s lead counsel, Abbe Lowell (pictured), charges a similar fee
“Today, the top lawyers in New York and Washington charge about $2,000 an hour for lead counsel and between $1,000 and $1,800 for other partners and the upper hundreds … for junior associates,” Dershowitz told the New York Post .
The professor said Winston and Strawn’s partner Lowell tended to charge Hunter at the higher end of the spectrum.
“I would say generally about a million dollars a month,” Dershowitz added.
“It would be a very rough estimate of what the impact would be for all of these cases combined if they were billed at commercial rates.”
Hunter is charged with three felonies, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The first count involves lying on a 2018 gun purchase form that he was not an illegal drug user, and he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years.
President Joe Biden’s son, 53, and his team of top lawyers are preparing to fight his gun charges and have filed at least four lawsuits
The professor said Winston and Strawn’s partner Lowell (pictured) would put Hunter at the higher end of the spectrum
An image from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the now 53-year-old first son posing naked with a gun
The second count is that he lied to the gun store, which could get him up to five years in prison, and the third is that he possessed the firearm while an addict, which could get him another 10 years.
Hunter and his legal team have been involved in the intensive prosecution of those allegedly involved in distributing the contents of his laptop.
He sued former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former lawyer Robert Costello on Tuesday.
The first son also filed a lawsuit against former White House adviser Garrett Ziegler, whose nonprofit Marco Polo made most of his laptop’s data searchable online.
Hunter also decided this month to launch a lawsuit against the government agency Internal Revenue Service, which has extensive resources.
He also sued the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop, John Paul Mac Isaac, who took possession of the laptop when Hunter abandoned it.
It comes during his years-long legal battle with U.S. Attorney David Weiss, whose investigation against him is ongoing after he was appointed special counsel.
Hunter’s primary attorney is Lowell, but he has retained at least three law firms because of their expertise.
Giuliani claimed the charges could total “a few million dollars” this year, adding: “That’s not even an exaggeration.”
Hunter allegedly lied about a gun report (above) that was required for his gun transaction. A photo of the form shows he answered “no” when asked if he was an “unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or a depressant, stimulant, narcotic or other controlled substance.”
Hunter Biden is seen in a picture discovered on his abandoned laptop
The now first son told his uncle James Biden that he was broke and unable to pay child support in text messages revealed in IRS whistleblower documents
He said: “Someone is taking care of these legal fees… this is coming from a hidden fund that the Bidens have.”
It raises the question of how Hunter pays his army of lawyers. Text messages from 2018 show he was broke and asking his father and uncle for money.
Last year he argued in court that he needed to reduce his child support payments to Lunden Roberts, former stripper and mother of his child Navy Joan, because his “financial circumstances” were changing.
They reached an agreement in June and his payments were reduced from $20,000 to $5,000.
He previously earned $1.3 million from the sale of his paintings, thanks in part to Los Angeles-based real estate investor and Democratic donor Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali (above) and Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris.
Hunter Biden sported a prison-ready shaved head as he held a five-hour meeting in Los Angeles with his super-rich Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris before his arraignment on weapons charges next week
Hunter could have sought advice at his lawyer’s home in Pacific Palisades on how to deal with his worst-case scenario: being found guilty and thrown in prison
Hunter’s lengthy meeting with his lawyer suggests he is busy making last-minute preparations for his criminal trial, in which he will plead not guilty
In 2021, Hunter made his debut at a posh New York art gallery, where the sticker price for some of his amateur pieces was $500,000.
A single buyer spent $875,000 on 11 of Hunter’s paintings – but that person’s identity is unclear.
The buyer apparently does not live in New York and is listed as “out of state” on the purchase documents.
The gallery received a 40 to 45 percent commission on total sales of $1,379,000.
Giuliani suspected that money for Hunter’s legal fees might come from super-rich Hollywood entertainment lawyer Morris.
Morris previously settled a $2 million tax debt for Hunter and regularly lets him use his private jet.
has contacted Lowell’s lawyers for comment.