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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE25001009M?

$530K paid to 7 different vendors (the largest, Miller Barondess LLP, received $255.4K) across 27 payments from November 20, 2024 to March 26, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026
A blanket order, not one firm's contract

7 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $530K above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Litigation

Budget line.

Approval records

No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Miller Barondess LLP$255K · 4 payments
Law Office of Roberta M. Yang, P.C.$242K · 15 payments
Freeman & Mills Inc$24K · 1 payment
Setec Security Technologies Inc$6K · 1 payment
Esquire Deposition Solutions,llc.$2K · 2 payments
Frasco Inc$203 · 1 payment
Underground Service Alert of Southern California$195 · 3 payments

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1November 20, 2024November 18, 20242dC23-102268/070124/LEWIS$50
2November 21, 2024November 20, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN 073124$13,850
3November 21, 2024November 8, 202413d23SYCV29750/080124/HERNANDEZ$50
4December 4, 2024December 2, 20242dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN 073124$1,161
5December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN AUG2024$34,533
6December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN JULY2024$11,986
7December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN MAY 2024$9,927
8December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN APR 2024$9,198
9December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN MAR 2024$4,703
10December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN SEPT2024$2,975
11December 18, 2024December 17, 20241dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN JUNE2024$2,079
12December 23, 2024December 20, 20243dLA CITY ATTY CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION 1826-001 - AUG 2024$104,562
13December 23, 2024December 20, 20243dLA CITY ATTY CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION 1826-001 - JULY 2024$75,620
14December 23, 2024December 20, 20243dLA CITY ATTY CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION 1826-001 - OCT 2024$45,805
15December 23, 2024December 20, 20243dLA CITY ATTY CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION 1826-001 - SEPT 2024-001 - SEPT 2024$29,398
16December 26, 2024December 17, 20249dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN OCT2024$37,589
17December 26, 2024December 17, 20249dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN SEPT2024$35,010
18February 11, 2025January 22, 202520dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN NOV2024$14,369
19February 20, 2025February 12, 20258dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN JAN2025$34,304
20April 2, 2025March 20, 202513dCV19-06182/GARCIA/112524/KIM$6,107
21April 3, 2025March 12, 202522dC23-113437/LONG/090524/MOREGON$95
22April 29, 2025April 3, 202526dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN MAR 2025$15,989
23April 29, 2025April 3, 202526dLABOR RELATIONS-CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION-COMPLAINT/V SWANIGAN FEB 2025$14,108
24July 15, 2025July 9, 20256dLACAO INVESTIGATION / HFS/SF/BV/ 080824-093024$24,490
25October 20, 2025September 10, 202540d23-CV-00875/ENRIQUE/062325/LAZAREVICH$1,462
26October 20, 2025September 10, 202540d23-CV-00875/ENRIQUE/062325/LAZAREVICH$381
27March 26, 2026March 20, 20266d24STCV32929 PARK / FRASCO CASE: 2074412-01WPL / ASSIGNMENT #A26-01588 / E JOHNSON-BROOKS 030525-0624$203

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Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.