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BHUSD legal fees exceed $1 million for third quarter fiscal year 2013 – 2014 (first quarter calendar year)
BHUSD legal fees exceed $500k the past quarter
Program
Charged
Board/
Superintendent
Board/
Superintendent
Board/
Superintendent
Board/
Superintendent
Board/
Superintendent
Attorney Firm
Venable
2nd Fiscal
Year Quarter
(4th Calendar
Year)
Jan. Feb. Mar.
3rd Fiscal
Year Quarter
(1st Calendar
Year)
Fiscal Year
to Date
Quinn $125,511.96 $125,511.96 $125,511.96
Hill Farrer & Burrill
LLP
Consultants $41,742.50 $41,742.50
Legals
Gibeaut, Mahan &
Briscoe
$4,008.00 $155.00 $4,163.00 $4,163.00
Best Best & Krieger $2,689.56 $1,066.40 $2,916.20 $3,982.60 $6,672.16
Business Office Best Best & Krieger $2,395.87 $6,212.20 $14,078.22 $20,290.42 $22,686.29
District
Administration
Special
Education
Human
Resources
Best Best & Krieger
Best Best & Krieger $17,043.57 $33,584.84 $21,640.87 $55,225.71 $72,269.28
Best Best & Krieger $33,240.25 $31,040.56 $3,372.80 $34,413.36 $67,653.61
Pupil Personnel Best Best & Krieger $2,331.20 $2,331.20 $2,331.20
Curriculum/
Instruction
District
Administration
Board/
Superintendent
Human
Resources
Board/
Superintendent
Best Best & Krieger
Haight, Brown &
Bonesteel
Hawkins Delafield
& Wood LLP
Atkinson, Andelson,
Loya, Ruud & Romo
$1,554.50 $1,554.50
$16,450.14 $16,450.14
$269.90 $269.90
Lozano Smith, LLP $18,366.56 $12,813.25 $12,813.25 $31,179.81
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at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
The top award is $10,000 and approximately
$50,000 will be awarded amongst the
finalists.
Performers include sopranos Kiri
Deonarine, Marina Harris, and Shelly Jackson,
mezzo-soprano Cassandra Zoe Velasco, bass
Valentin Anikin, tenors Brian Jagde, Noah
Baetge, and Vladimir Dmitruk, and baritones
Takaoki Onishi and Alexy Lavrov.
The Loren L. Zachary Society for the
Performing Arts is a nonprofit organization
founded in 1972 and assists young opera singers
in furthering their careers.
Admission is free and tickets are required.
Contact Peter Hubner at (310) 276 – 2731
for more information.
BHBA to hold free legal clinic
at La Cienega Park
Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers is
holding their free legal clinics temporarily at
La Cienega Park starting on May 3.
Free legal aid clinics are open to the community
on the first Saturday of each month
from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. Upcoming
dates are on May 3, June 7, July 5, and Aug. 2.
Volunteer BHBA Barristers attorneys are
available to answer basic legal questions
about consumer law, landlord-tenant law,
small claims, business disputes, wills and
trusts, and other legal issues. Attorney-client
relationships are not created through the legal
clinics, and lawyer referral and information
services are available.
Visit www.bhba.org or call (310) 601 –
2422 for more information.
BHFD and BHFA to host Fire
Service Recognition Day
$133,752.85 $214,237.21 $155.00 $44,339.29 $258,731.50 $392,484.35
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Best Best & Krieger
(general) $5,966.98 $3,423.08 $372.00 $5,679.20 $9,474.28 $15,441.26
Kasowitz, Benson,
Torress & Friedman
LLP $142,105.28 $142,105.28
Quinn Emanuel
(litigation)
Hill Farrer & Burrill
LLP
(litigation/experts) $306,913.47 $237,671.96 $25,831.11 $263,503.07 $570,416.54
Legal
Consultants
Venable (NEPA
litigation) $125,828.43 $125,828.43
$580,814.16 $241,095.04 $26,203.11 $5,679.20 $272,977.35 $853,791.51
Total Legal Costs $714,567.01 $455,332.25 $26,358.11 $50,018.49 $531,708.85 $1,246,275.86
Source:
Source:
BHUSD
BHUSD
Firefighter/Paramedic Josh Sattley poses
with youth at the 2012 Fire Service
Recognition Day
The Beverly Hills Fire Department and the
Beverly Hills Firefighter’s Association will
host the Fire Service Recognition Day on May
10 at Fire Station #1 in Beverly Hills.
The event will include fire engine rides, and
a live fire and rappelling demonstration. Hot
dogs and soda will be provided by the BHFA
for free.
BHFA represents 73 full-time professional
firefighters and paramedics who operate the
City’s three fire stations 24 hours a day. They
respond to over 6,000 incidents a year.
Location and time:
445 North Rexford Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
BHUSD BHUSD legal legal expenditures expenditures for for the the third third quarter quarter fiscal fiscal year year 2013-2014 2013-2014 (first (first calendar quarter quarter calendar 2014) year between 2014) Jan between 1, 2014 Jan and 1, Mar. 201431, 2014 totaled
--Briefs compiled by Nancy Yeang
$1,246,275.86, and Mar. 31, 2014 paid totaled various $531,708.85, law firms. paid to various law firms. Legal fees beginning July 1, 2013 to Mar. 31, 2014 totals
$1,246,275.86.
To To put put these these numbers in context, in context, Las Las Virgenes Virgenes Unified Unified School School District’s District’s legal legal fees, fees, which which has almost has almost triple triple the number the number of students, of stu-fodents, school for the year entire totaled 2012-2013 $676,000, school which year includes totaled special $676,000, education which and includes general special legal fees. education and general legal the entire 2012-
2013 fees.
Venable represented the district in the NEPA case against the Federal Transit Administration, which pertains to the Purple Line extension that may
tunnel underneath Beverly High. Venable was replaced by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman in Sept. 2013. Gibeaut, Mahan and Briscoe is retained
to represent the district in the litigation involving former Coach Jeffrey Fisher. Quinn Emmanuel represents the district in the litigation involving former
BHUSD Facilities Director Karen Christiansen. Hill Farrer & Burril, LLP represents the district in the CEQA case against Metro, which pertains to the
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