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Law Practice

Sep. 27, 2007

City Council Seeks Review of Costs for Outside Legal Help

LOS ANGELES - After receiving a $1.3 million invoice from Jones Day for the Tennie Pierce discrimination-case settlement, three City Council members on Tuesday called for a review of expenditures by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo for outside legal help.

By Peter B. Matuszak
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - After receiving a $1.3 million invoice from Jones Day for the Tennie Pierce discrimination-case settlement, three City Council members on Tuesday called for a review of expenditures by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo for outside legal help.
      "They cost us over a million dollars, and I am not sure exactly what they did," s...

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