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County counsel outlines lower-cost legal services as public speakers criticize outside counsel
Summary
At a Tulare County meeting convened as the Tulare Public Cemetery District board, County Counsel presented a cost-and-capacity comparison between in-house counsel and the private firm Best Best & Krieger; several members of the public criticized responses to public-records requests and urged the board to reconsider outside counsel.
Tulare County Counsel presented a comparison of legal services options to the Tulare Public Cemetery District on a county agenda item that was delivered as information only, highlighting lower hourly rates and broader in-house teams as potential cost savings and service capacity for the district.
The presentation noted Best Best & Krieger’s general-counsel rate previously charged to the district and contrasted it with recently adopted county-counsel rates. County Counsel said the average monthly cost while the firm was retained was about $5,204.63, and that the district’s projected annual cost using outside counsel was about $62,455 compared with County Counsel’s…
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