Sure, a quarter-million dollars is a lot of money. But in Big Law—and for the most significant white-collar case to rattle a presidential administration in years—$230,000 doesn’t buy all that much.

The number appeared Tuesday in a story by The Washington Post that said the Republican National Committee was paying about $130,000 to Jay Sekulow and about $100,000 to John Dowd for their legal services in August defending President Donald Trump.