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Parlier council questions more than $1 million in legal bills, calls for audit and itemized breakdown
Summary
Council members spent an extended portion of the July 8 workshop pressing staff for detail on attorney invoices dating back several years, citing large payments to outside firms (Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Chapman, others) and missing deliverables; staff agreed to review and itemize payments by case.
Parlier councilmembers at the July 8 budget workshop raised detailed questions about the city’s legal spending and asked staff to audit invoices and clarify what the city has paid to outside firms.
Council discussion cited multiple outside law firms and invoices across several years and asked staff to reconcile payments against case-level work. During the discussion council members and staff cited payments and invoices that included Liebert, Cassidy, Whitmore (LCW), Chapman, and other firms. In one exchange staff reported LCW billing of $275,002.89 (six months) and a separate Chapman bill totaling about $139,033.26 for the period the city reviewed; councilmembers also…
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