Lawrence and Louis Law Firm uses activity-based costing to determine the costs of its cases. Information about costs follow:

Cost Pool	Budgeted Costs		Budgeted Cost Driver	Budgeted Rate
Legal support	$1,500,000		$2,000,000 professional labor cost	$.75 / professional labor dollar
Secretarial support	800,000		4,000 partner labor hours	$200 / partner labor hour
Facilities	600,000		12,000 professional labor hours	$50 / professional labor hour

The Laurel case required 60 professional hours, 20 of which were partner hours, and labor costs totaled $10,000. If direct costs relating to the case were $1,000, what were the total costs of the Laurel case?

a. $23,000

b. $15,500

c. $25,500

d. $21,500