Litigation Expenses-Legal Fees
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2026, San Francisco paid $16.3M for litigation expenses-legal fees to 58 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.
$16.3M
paid in FY2026 · 0.1% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2026
58 payees, 3 departments.
Renne Public Law Group LLP$1.9M
COOLEY LLP$1.7M
CDF Labor Law LLP$1.7M
GORDON-CREED KELLEY HOLL & SUGARMAN LL$1.5M
Conrad Metlizky Kane LLP$1.5M
BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND P.C.$990,605
57 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.