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What has the City paid on purchase order SC12CO25143190A?

$73K paid to Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP across 6 payments from January 9, 2025 to September 8, 2025, charged to City Attorney / City Attorney Outside Counsel.

What it was for

City Attorney Outside Counsel

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

USA, ET AL. V. COLA 2:11-CV-00974-PSG-JC ( MEI LING)

Approval records

  • Contract C-143190Award recorded in the City's procurement portal; see below.

Order dated January 7, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Awarded and paid so far

The City's procurement portal, RAMP, records contract C-143190 (the number embedded in this order's number, SC12CO25143190A) as awarded to Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP for $7.0M (sole source), effective April 1, 2023 and expiring March 31, 2026. This order has paid $72.5K, 1% of that figure.

The award amount and dates are as entered in RAMP; later amendments that change a contract's ceiling or term are not always reflected there, and a contract can be paid through orders not shown on this page. RAMP title: “MUNGER TOLLES & OLSON, LLP”. See the award on RAMP

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
1January 9, 2025December 18, 202422dMEI LING 29952-00001 09/24 2ND PAYMENT$49,052
2May 22, 2025May 9, 202513dMEI LING 29952.00001 10/24 L23-01391$10,384
3May 22, 2025May 9, 202513dMEI LING 29952.00001 11/24 L23-01391$1,703
4May 22, 2025May 9, 202513dMEI LING 29952.00001 12/24 L23-01391$637
5September 8, 2025August 21, 202518dUNITED STATES EX REL. MEI LING V COLA [CASE NO. 2:11-CV-00974-PSG-JC] L23-01391 01/25$10,105
6September 8, 2025August 21, 202518dUNITED STATES EX REL. MEI LING V COLA [CASE NO. 2:11-CV-00974-PSG-JC] L23-01391 02/25$637

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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. Award from RAMP Opportunity Awards (h8mw-iegk), matched on the contract number embedded in this order's number and on the vendor's name. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.