For Some Afghans, Cost of Doing Business Includes U.S. Lawyers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Dollar for dollar, Mahmood Karzai may well hold the title for getting the least value out of his pricey American lawyers. Mr. Karzai, a brother of President Hamid Karzai, paid one of them $100,000, and all he got was a single meeting and one follow up e-mail — and then the lawyer died. - nytimes