If all the hoo-hah over DV's assertions has to do with his observation that large corporations have all their lawyers "on salary," I agree that, technically, DV may have been incorrect.

The typical corporation has a small number of full-time legal employees on salary, plus an additional army of sharks on retainer.

This does not invalidate DV's observation, with which I agree, that taxpayers are shelling out too many dollars in legal fees for the unsuccessful defense of ill-advised laws. The opponents against whom these publicly-finded advocates must litigate are better-paid (and therefore, arguably, better) and more numerous, with plenty of paralegal and clerical support, and the cost of putting them to work is already in the corporations' bloated budgets as part of the cost of doing business.