City Council

Item 101: Authorization to Retain As-Needed Outside Counsel for Appellate Law and Workers\nCompensation Law for an Amount Not-to-Exceed $500,000 Over a Term of Five\nYears.\nTotal Estimated Cost of Proposed Action and Funding Source:\nThe cost of each contract is in an amount not-to-exceed $500,000. Legal services are to be\nprovided on an as-needed basis so there is no need for an allocation of funds at this time.\nThe source of funding when the need for legal services arises under these contracts will be\nfrom the Public Liability Fund, or one or more Enterprise Funds, or the Citywide Program\nExpenditures of the General Fund, in a not-to-exceed amount appropriated each year by\nthe City Council.\nCouncil District(s) Affected: Citywide.\nProposed Actions:\n(R-2025-321)\nResolution authorizing the retention of Mullins Plummer + Castiglioni APC, Collins +\nCollins LLP, Meyers Nave APC, and Niddrie Addams Fuller Singh LLP, to represent the\nCity of San Diego as outside counsel on an as-needed basis in workers compensation law\nand appellate law.\nCommittee Actions Taken:\nThis item was heard at the Budget and Government Efficiency Committee meeting on\nDecember 11, 2024.\nACTION: Motion by Committee Member Foster, second by Chair Lee, to recommend\nCouncil approval of staff’s proposed actions.\nVOTE: 4-0; Lee-yea, Moreno-yea, LaCava-yea, Foster III-yea.\nOffice of the City Attorney: Jim McNeill, (619) 533-5860\nCity Attorney Contact: Christina L. Rae