Item 17 - Agreement for Legal and Investigative Services

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k. Subcontractors - Attorneys shall require and verify that all subcontractors maintain insurance meeting all the requirements stated herein, and Attorneys shall ensure that City is an additional insured on insurance required from subcontractors. 1. Special Risks or Circumstances — City reserves the right to modify these requirements, including limits, based on the nature of the risk, prior experience, insurer, coverage, or other special circumstances 9. 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 performance or conduct related to this Agreement. Since the purpose of the Attorneys' engagement is to assist the City in determining the facts related to internal personnel complaints, the City agrees to the following limited indemnity language. The City agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Attorneys, its successors and assigns, and each of its officers and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, demands, losses and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, accruing or resulting to any and all persons, firms, or other entity arising out of Attorneys' performance or non-performance of its obligations under this Agreement, unless an error or erroneous omission by Attorneys cause such damage or loss. The City shall not indemnify Attorneys for any matter involving a claim by the City of professional negligence, or any matter for which Attorneys shall have been adjudicated to have acted in bad faith or engaged in willful misconduct or any conduct outside the scope of its retention under this Agreement. This Agreement in no way limits the Attorneys' liability for professional malpractice under California Rule of Professional Conduct 3- 400. 10. 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. 5