While the various groups bidding to acquire Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers push the potential purchase price toward $1 billion, the bankrupt franchise keeps racking up legal bills.

From the beginning of Chapter 11 proceedings last June through December 31, the Dodgers and hard-pressed owner Frank McCourt-whose struggle to maintain control of the team was the subject of a March 2011 American Lawyer feature story-spent nearly $16 million in bankruptcy-related fees and expenses on outside professional advisers.

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