Litigation Expenses-Legal Fees
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2025, San Francisco paid $13.1M for litigation expenses-legal fees to 63 payees across 3 departments, 0.1% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).
Not confidently classified; shown folded, never as fact.
$13.1M
paid in FY2025 · 0.1% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2025
63 payees, 3 departments.
BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND P.C.$2.3M
Renne Public Law Group LLP$949,964
NOSSAMAN LLP$723,663
GORDON-CREED KELLEY HOLL & SUGARMAN LL$722,466
SPIEGEL & MCDIARMID LLP$692,911
COOLEY LLP$687,703
68 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
3 in all; these are the ones above.