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Litigation Expenses-Legal Fees

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2024, San Francisco paid $9.2M for litigation expenses-legal fees to 55 payees across 2 departments, 0.1% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).

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$9.2M
paid in FY2024 · 0.1% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2024

55 payees, 2 departments.

NOSSAMAN LLPPUC Public Utilities Commsn$1.6M
NOSSAMAN LLPCAT City Attorney$1.2M
ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFECAT City Attorney$762,378
BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND P.C.PUC Public Utilities Commsn$701,521
SPIEGEL & MCDIARMID LLPPUC Public Utilities Commsn$684,609
GORDON-CREED KELLEY HOLL & SUGARMAN LLCAT City Attorney$544,862

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