Litigation Expenses-Legal Fees
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2022, San Francisco paid $8.9M for litigation expenses-legal fees to 54 payees across 4 departments, 0.1% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).
Not confidently classified; shown folded, never as fact.
$8.9M
paid in FY2022 · 0.1% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2022
54 payees, 4 departments.
SPIEGEL & MCDIARMID LLP$1.3M
NOSSAMAN LLP$1.2M
JACKSON LEWIS P.C.$1.2M
BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND P.C.$808,710
Renne Public Law Group LLP$696,426
SHUTE MIHALY & WEINBERGER LLP$415,324
54 more not shown.
Spent by year
From FY2018, when the City renumbered its chart of accounts.
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Tallest bar — FY2026: $16.3M. Bars are scaled to this category’s own peak year.
Departments in those payments
4 in all; these are the ones above.