The main thing hedge funds have in common today is not the way they invest, but their structure - including, of course, those lucrative fees.

Bankruptcy lawyers will not readily agree to change a system that generates lucrative fees.

The lucrative legal fees associated with those deals are helping New York's top law firms earn record profits.

So complex is this legislation that it will actually spawn a mountain of new regulations and lucrative fees for lawyers.

Or they may go elsewhere for management of the company's retirement accounts, which generate lucrative fees for fund families.

Actors and directors can publicly preserve their highly lucrative fees, although in some cases they are not paid as much as is reported.

For the defendents' lawyers, it means long hours, lucrative fees and damage control for the client.

But economists said at least part of those losses may have been covered by lucrative fees charged by the same companies in building the roads.

Though the salary was small Jefferey benefitted from lucrative fees.

And Wall Street, increasingly dependent on the lucrative fees from such deals, is also promoting the trend.