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What has the City paid on purchase order SC12CO26204065A?

$743K paid to Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP across 8 payments from August 3, 2026 to September 4, 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:

PALISADES FIRE LITIGATION

Approval records

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

Order dated June 12, 2026.

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
1August 3, 2026July 17, 202617dPALISADES FIRE 27100120563 03/26$333,869
2August 3, 2026July 22, 202612dPALISADES FIRE 29952-00005 04/26$58,153
3August 3, 2026July 17, 202617dPALISADES FIRE 29952-00005 03/26$26,231
4August 25, 2026August 20, 20265dPALISADES FIRE LIT 29952-00005 - BRUSH CLEARANCE CLAIMS 12/25$187,310
5September 3, 2026August 24, 202610dPALISADES FIRE LITIGATION BRUSH CLEARANCE CLAIMS 29952-00005 02/26$56,613
6September 3, 2026August 4, 202630dPALISADES FIRE SENATE INVESTIGATION OF CITY OFFICIALS 29952-00006 05/26$19,069
7September 3, 2026July 17, 202648dPALISADES FIRE LITIGATION BRUSH CLEARANCE CLAIMS 29952-00005 04/26$5,672
8September 4, 2026August 24, 202611dPALISADES FIRE SENATE INV 29952-00006 11/25$55,756

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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.