SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order SC12CO25146597A?

$500K paid to Burke Williams & Sorensen LLP across 8 payments from April 22, 2025 to September 26, 2025, charged to City Attorney / City Attorney Outside Counsel.

What it was for

City Attorney Outside Counsel

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

JUDY GRIFFIN 24CV06312

Approval records

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

Order dated January 5, 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
1April 22, 2025April 16, 20256dGRIFFIN 09097-0001 02/25$42,892
2April 22, 2025April 16, 20256dJUDY GRIFFIN 24CV06312$29,294
3April 22, 2025April 15, 20257dGRIFFIN 09097-0001 11/24$21,902
4April 22, 2025April 16, 20256dGRIFFIN 09097-0001 12/24$16,581
5April 22, 2025April 16, 20256dGRIFFIN 09097-0001 10/24$5,099
6June 20, 2025June 16, 20254dGRIFFIN, JUDY 09097-0001 CV2406312 L25-00392$85,385
7September 26, 2025September 12, 202514dGRIFFIN, JUDY ET AL V CITY OF LOS ANGELES 09097-0001 CV2406312 L25-00392 05/25$175,109
8September 26, 2025September 10, 202516dGRIFFIN, JUDY ET AL V CITY OF LOS ANGELES 09097-0001 CV2406312 L25-00392 04/25$123,738

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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.