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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE26001006M?

$3.35M paid to 107 different vendors (the largest, Adjudicate, Inc., received $624.5K) across 1,100 payments from July 28, 2025 to September 3, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

107 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $3.3M 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.

Order description, as published:

VARIOUS EXPERT WITNESS

Approval records

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

Order dated July 8, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 107 vendors on this order.

Adjudicate, Inc.$624K · 207 payments
Paragon Forensics LLC$410K · 215 payments
Glassratner Advisory & Capital$351K · 10 payments
Adr Services Inc$341K · 107 payments
Signature Resolution, LLC$108K · 25 payments
Conflict Solution Services$83K · 54 payments
Geopentech Inc$78K · 8 payments
Steno Agency Inc$72K · 50 payments
Exponent Inc$66K · 14 payments
Justitia Consulting Inc$64K · 23 payments
American Jury Centers$61K · 2 payments
John G McCabe Consulting Inc$59K · 11 payments
Sanli Pastore & Hill Inc$58K · 3 payments
J. S. Held LLC$56K · 11 payments
Mitchell C Green$47K · 27 payments
Rock E Miller$47K · 18 payments
Stivers & Associates Inc$45K · 12 payments
Kimberly Cherney$38K · 7 payments
Magna Legal Services LLC$28K · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 1,100 payments totalling $3.3M, an average of $3,041. At that volume it is a standing arrangement drawn down continuously rather than a sequence of milestones, so individual payments are not listed.

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.