HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12171991 - 1.104 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM Phil Batchelor, County Administrator C=tra
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DATE: December 17, 1991 CO^
SUBJECT: Contracts for Legal Defense Services
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Authorize County Risk Manager to execute contracts with selected. legal
firms for defense of the County in liability, medical malpractice and civil
rights claims.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Legal costs for liability and medical self-insurance programs are funded
through the Liability and Medical Malpractice Trust Funds.
BACKGROUND:
Legal firms selected for defense of liability claims agreed to two year
contracts that pay $110 per hour for Senior Partners and $90 per hour for
Associates. Medical defense firms also agreed to two year contracts that
pay $115 per hour.
The following firms are selected to provide legal defense to the County:
1. Abend, Lepper, Jacobson, Schaefer & Hughes
2. Archer, McComas & Lageson
3 . Bennett, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard
4. Bishop & Frick
5. Capps, Staples, Ward, Hastings & Dodson
6 . Craddick, Candland & Conti
7. Gagen, McCoy, McMahon & Armstrong
8. Gibbons, Lees & Edrington
9. Gordon, DeFraga, Watrous & Pezzaglia, Inc.
10. Jerrold M. Ladar
11. Low, Ball & Lynch
12. Martin, Ryan & Andrada
13 . McGlynn, McLorg & McDowell
14. McNamara,. Houston, Dodge, McClure & Ney
15. Dan Ryan
16. Sellar, Hazard, Snyder, Kelly & Fitzgerald
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE: L
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMEN ION OF BOA COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE S :
ACTION OF BOARD ON `7 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
jC UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES; NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: CAO Risk Management ATTESTED Zjqf
Auditor-Controller
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY ,DEPUTY
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