SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order SC12CO26201449A?

$245K paid to Sanders Roberts LLP across 12 payments from November 26, 2025 to June 22, 2026, charged to City Attorney / City Attorney Outside Counsel.

What it was for

City Attorney Outside Counsel

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

MCGINNIS LITIGATION

Approval records

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

Order dated November 26, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Related orders

Orders sharing this one's base number. Amendments are usually issued as a new order with a numbered suffix.

SC12CO26201449A-1$219K · 5 payments · from July 2, 2026

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 26, 2025January 13, 2025317dMICHELLE MCGINNIS V CITY OF LOS ANGELES - CASE # 24STCV25077 L25-00707 05/25 PARTIAL PAYMENT$20,934
2November 26, 2025January 13, 2025317dMICHELLE MCGINNIS V CITY OF LOS ANGELES - CASE # 24STCV25077 L25-00707 01/25$19,066
3December 11, 2025November 13, 202528dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 05/25$2,213
4February 27, 2026February 10, 202617dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 09/25$47,315
5February 27, 2026February 10, 202617dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 08/25$34,344
6February 27, 2026February 19, 20268dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 06/25$16,609
7February 27, 2026February 19, 20268dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 07/25$7,936
8February 27, 2026February 16, 202611dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 11/25$5,680
9March 20, 2026March 6, 202614dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 10/25$20,082
10April 30, 2026April 15, 202615dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 01/26$38,312
11April 30, 2026April 15, 202615dMCGINNIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 12/25$29,669
12June 22, 2026June 9, 202613dMCGINIS 03178 24STCV25077 L25-00707 04/26$2,841

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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.