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What has the City spent on City Attorney Outside Counsel?
$70.3M across 5,562 payments, July 18, 2017 to September 8, 2026 — 213 purchase orders and 54 vendors, run by City Attorney.
As published: CITY ATTORNEY OUTSIDE COUNSEL
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 213 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.
Spending by fiscal year
* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $2.7M.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 54 vendors on this line.
335 payments
989 payments
48 payments
20 payments
604 payments
80 payments
69 payments
106 payments
372 payments
291 payments
176 payments
342 payments
162 payments
54 payments
1 payment
36 payments
95 payments
131 payments
94 payments
129 payments
191 payments
34 payments
25 payments
44 payments
180 payments
Under which orders
The 40 largest of 213 purchase orders booked to this line.
19 payments · October 23, 2025 to August 3, 2026
30 payments · December 21, 2023 to November 8, 2024
84 payments · December 16, 2025 to September 8, 2026
67 payments · February 18, 2026 to July 31, 2026
258 payments · December 14, 2023 to January 23, 2026
187 payments · November 9, 2022 to December 14, 2023
1 payment · August 4, 2022 to August 4, 2022
5 payments · July 6, 2026 to August 6, 2026
19 payments · December 16, 2025 to September 4, 2026
152 payments · November 10, 2022 to July 21, 2023
32 payments · December 30, 2025 to July 27, 2026
43 payments · December 9, 2025 to March 31, 2026
11 payments · February 21, 2019 to July 29, 2019
13 payments · October 19, 2023 to April 23, 2024
112 payments · November 9, 2022 to July 23, 2025
21 payments · May 3, 2024 to November 5, 2025
4 payments · June 21, 2023 to October 24, 2023
28 payments · January 10, 2025 to June 5, 2026
16 payments · November 26, 2025 to June 18, 2026
20 payments · October 5, 2020 to April 27, 2022
53 payments · October 26, 2021 to December 1, 2022
95 payments · March 24, 2025 to April 28, 2026
8 payments · August 3, 2026 to September 4, 2026
19 payments · November 22, 2023 to April 3, 2025
126 payments · October 17, 2023 to January 16, 2025
129 payments · November 9, 2022 to December 13, 2023
58 payments · January 8, 2025 to June 4, 2026
7 payments · January 9, 2026 to July 7, 2026
29 payments · November 5, 2019 to May 12, 2022
115 payments · October 28, 2021 to November 10, 2022
25 payments · January 9, 2025 to August 13, 2026
19 payments · December 22, 2017 to July 24, 2018
3 payments · April 12, 2023 to July 21, 2023
82 payments · April 1, 2024 to February 19, 2026
25 payments · November 22, 2019 to January 13, 2021
39 payments · July 14, 2025 to January 22, 2026
67 payments · December 21, 2023 to June 4, 2026
12 payments · July 7, 2023 to April 19, 2024
8 payments · April 22, 2025 to September 26, 2025
38 payments · January 10, 2025 to July 28, 2025
Sources
LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.