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Commissioners question $1.3M "aggregate" outside counsel awards and ask for billing history
Summary
At the Dec. 22 caucus Hudson County Counsel Alberico DePierro explained a consolidated RFQ for outside counsel totaling $1.3 million 'in the aggregate' that he said saves about $680,000; commissioners pressed for last‑year billing records and raised conflict and monitoring concerns.
Hudson County Counsel Alberico DePierro told commissioners on Dec. 22 that the Law Department consolidated multiple outside-counsel categories into a single RFQ and intends to award professional-service contracts totaling $1.3 million "in the aggregate," a change he said will reduce the county's outside counsel spending compared with the previous year.
"We did in one RFQ... So all the categories were in the RFQ. So all the categories were in the RFQ. So it's 1.3 million in the aggregate, which means the total amount of contracts that would be award is 1.3, which is $680,000 less than last…
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