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What has the City paid on purchase order SC12CO25139740A?

$100K paid to Best Best & Krieger LLP across 23 payments from September 8, 2025 to August 27, 2026, charged to City Attorney / City Attorney Outside Counsel.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026

What it was for

City Attorney Outside Counsel

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

DTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES 220CV11293

Approval records

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

Order dated January 7, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

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
1September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 03/25$14,099
2September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 11/24$4,530
3September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 02/25$2,195
4September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 01/25$1,988
5September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 12/24$1,981
6September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 05/25$1,529
7September 8, 2025September 3, 20255dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 04/25$1,070
8January 29, 2026January 28, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 08/25$3,350
9January 29, 2026January 28, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 07/25$3,217
10January 29, 2026January 28, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 06/25$2,440
11January 29, 2026January 28, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 06/25$2,302
12January 29, 2026January 28, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 08/25$2,054
13February 9, 2026February 4, 20265dDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES- SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 22-00322 07/25$15,588
14March 4, 2026March 3, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 10/25$18,210
15March 4, 2026March 3, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 10/25$1,541
16March 4, 2026March 3, 20261dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 10/25$1,462
17March 20, 2026March 17, 20263dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 12/25$5,844
18March 20, 2026March 17, 20263dDTSC 65446.0001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 09/25$4,827
19March 20, 2026March 17, 20263dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 11/25$4,319
20March 20, 2026March 17, 20263dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 11/25$3,011
21March 20, 2026March 17, 20263dDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 12/25$2,173
22August 27, 2026August 18, 20269dDTSC CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 01/26 SHARED$1,970
23August 27, 2026August 18, 20269dDTSC CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 01/26 SOLE$304

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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.