In today's brave new McWorld of multinational corporate warfare - not to mention independent prosecutors gunning for presidents - armies of lawyers are often deployed to strange cities for long periods. Strategy sessions usually confine them to a bare-bones conference room with a copier and wet bar ... not exactly the spiffy amenities they get back home.
The Grand War Room at the Hotel Inter-Continental Los Angeles was built around an attorney focus group's wish list of gadgets and comforts for out-of-town offensives. The high tech headquarter is an 800-square-foot, cherry-wooded armory tricked out with the latest audiovisual/documenting equipment, plus attorney necessities such as 18-inch deep shelves.
Why LA's Hotel Inter-Continental? It's already a favorite lawyer bunker, close to courthouses, the financial district, and significant prisons. (It's also where the O. J. criminal jury was sequestered.)
Here's what you get with the Grand War Room: leather chairs with executive board-room table; paralegal work station; Polycom SoundStation speakerphones (resembling tiny Klingon battleships); T1 telephone and data ports; Lanier copy machine/sorter (55 copies per minute); fax machine; 94 feet of shelving; 50-watt halogen Mo-Aero track lights that nimbly pivot to intimidate deposed witnesses; plus TV, VCR, stereo, and fridge. The copier is stashed in a soundproof closet to avoid deposition interruptus.
At extra cost are a Lexis-Nexis terminal, ISDN fiber-optic lines, a laser printer, and, naturally, a shredder. Patent and entertainment barristers regularly book the War Room. So, what's the rent? US$500 daily or $3,500 weekly. Now we know where those legal fees go.
[an error occurred while processing this directive] The Grand War Room: US$500 per day. Hotel Inter-Continental Los Angeles: +1 (213) 356 4011. [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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