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10. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS It is mutually agreed by and between the parties that, in the performance of their covenants hereunder, Attorneys are and shall be independent contractors, and not officers or employees of City. 11. INSURANCE Attorneys shall provide to the City Attorney proof of Professional Liability (errors and omissions) insurance, with a combined single limit of not less than $1,000,000 per claim, and maintain such insurance throughout the term of this Agreement. If Attorneys fail or refuse to produce and maintain the insurance required by this section, or fail or refuse to furnish the City with required proof that insurance has been procured and is in force and paid for, the City shall have the right, at the City's election, to forthwith terminate this Agreement. Such termination shall not affect Attorneys' right to be paid for its time and materials expended prior to notification of termination. 12. INDEMNIFICATION. Attorneys agree to and shall indemnify and hold harmless the City, its officers, agents, employees, and representatives from liability for personal injury, damages, restitution, judicial or equitable relief to the extent caused by Attorneys' negligent or wrongful conduct resulting in physical injury and/or property damage. 13. CONFIDENTIALITY. All information and documents shared with Attorneys as well as all work performed by Attorneys in connection with this Agreement should be treated as strictly confidential. Moreover, all communications between Attorneys and City shall be treated as protected by the attorney -client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine. Accordingly, information received by Attorneys from City should be kept in a secure place, and no information about this work may be disclosed to any third party without City's prior written approval. Attorneys shall provide materials directly to the City Attorney, Sonia Carvalho, or selected members of her office, as directed by the City Attorney. All such information and any written product in connection with Attorneys' retention under this Agreement, shall be marked as "PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL / ATTORNEY -WORK PRODUCT" and shall be the property of the City Attorney's Office, and shall be returned/provided to the Office of the City Attorney with all copies upon the request of the City Attorney. Confidential information disclosed to either party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement. The foregoing obligations of non-use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any information that (a) has been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no fault of the Attorneys, disclosed in a publicly available source; (c) is in rightful possession of the Attorneys without an obligation of confidentiality; (d) is required to be disclosed by operation of law; or (e) is independently developed by the Attorneys without reference to information disclosed by the City. 14. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE. Attorneys covenant that it presently has no interests that would conflict in any manner with performance of services specified under this Agreement. 15. CONFLICTS WITH OTHER CLIENTS. The Firm's undertaking to represent Santa Ana will not act as a bar to prevent the Firm from representing any existing or future client, if any, with respect to a claim adverse to Santa Ana, provided that the Firm is no longer representing Santa Ana as a current client and, in the course of the Firm's representation of Santa Ana, the Firm has not obtained confidential information from Santa Ana that is material to the representation of the 4