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What has the City paid Best Best & Krieger LLP?

$2.4M in City payments across 738 checks, from December 19, 2017 to August 27, 2026. Outside-vendor scope only — payroll, transfers, debt and pension custody are excluded.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: BEST BEST & KRIEGER LLP

$2.4MTotal paid
738Payments
$3,294Average payment
FY2019-20Peak full year · $467K

By fiscal year

FY2017-18
$56K
FY2018-19
$397K
FY2019-20
$467K
FY2020-21
$382K
FY2021-22
$203K
FY2022-23
$230K
FY2023-24
$426K
FY2024-25
$90K
FY2025-26
$176K
FY2026-27 *
$3K

Who pays them

City Attorney$2.2M
Information Technology Agency$234K

What for

City Attorney Outside Counsel$562K

104 payments

Cable Franchise Oversight$206K

138 payments

Ahf/Coalition to Preserve LA$161K

32 payments

Privado$160K

20 payments

Westwood Neighbors$152K

56 payments

Coalition to Preserve LA$146K

22 payments

LA Gen Plan Cons Coal$118K

15 payments

Schreiber V. Cola$104K

35 payments

Responsible Urban Development II$99K

18 payments

LA Mirada Ave$86K

18 payments

Lydia Ponce/Pima$82K

20 payments

Aids Healthcare Foundation$70K

19 payments

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — $3K so far, not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $61K.

Most recent payments

The 25 latest to post. Purpose strings are the Controller's own reference codes — the budget line in the second column is usually the more informative field.

DateBudget linePurposeAmount
August 27, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 01/26 SHARED$1,970
August 27, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 01/26 SOLE$304
August 25, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyBBK; GENERAL 2/20-2/23/2026$946
August 25, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyBBK; FEDERAL REGULATORY ADVICE - 2/23/2026$170
March 26, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyLA PRESS CLUB 65272.00027 2:25-CV-05423$45,172
March 20, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 12/25$5,844
March 20, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC 65446.0001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 09/25$4,827
March 20, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 11/25$4,319
March 20, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 11/25$3,011
March 20, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 12/25$2,173
March 4, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 10/25$18,210
March 4, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 10/25$1,541
March 4, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 10/25$1,462
February 9, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES- SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR 22-00322 07/25$15,588
January 29, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 08/25$3,350
January 29, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 07/25$3,217
January 29, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 06/25$2,440
January 29, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 06/25$2,302
January 29, 2026City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V. NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 08/25$2,054
September 8, 2025City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 03/25$14,099
September 8, 2025City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V.NL INDUSTRIES SOLE 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 12/24$13,715
September 8, 2025City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V.NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 05/25$9,162
September 8, 2025City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V NL INDUSTRIES - SOLE 65446.00002 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L2200322 11/24$4,530
September 8, 2025City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V.NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 03/25$3,732
September 8, 2025City Attorney Outside CounselCity AttorneyDTSC V.NL INDUSTRIES SHARED 65446.00001 CV20-11293-SVW-JPR L22-00322 01/25$2,253

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (dataset pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Figures are every payment on record within the outside-vendor scope, not a single fiscal year. Back to the checkbook.