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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).

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$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 LLPPUC Public Utilities Commsn$1.3M
NOSSAMAN LLPCAT City Attorney$1.2M
JACKSON LEWIS P.C.CAT City Attorney$1.2M
BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND P.C.PUC Public Utilities Commsn$808,710
Renne Public Law Group LLPCAT City Attorney$696,426
SHUTE MIHALY & WEINBERGER LLPCAT City Attorney$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.