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For these services, Silver & Wright proposes a blended rate of $179 per hour for attorneys and $100 per hour for paralegals and law clerks. This rate includes drafting and filing documents with the court, obtaining and evaluating medical records, attending court hearings, settlement negotiations, preparing settlement documents and communicating with opposing counsel and City staff, as well as trials and appeals. 6. Ordinance Drafting and General Code Enforcement Services. RATE: $179 per hour. At Silver & Wright, we have helped numerous cities develop ordinances allowing them to aggressively and effectively deal with a wide variety of issues relating to cost recovery, nuisance abatement, property maintenance, graffiti, foreclosures, administrative citations and procedures, liens and assessments, public offenses and many others. For these services, and any miscellaneous and or general code enforcement related services not otherwise provided for in this proposal, Silver & Wright proposes a blended rate of $179 per hour for attorneys and $100 per hour for paralegals and law clerks. B. RECEIVERSHIPS RATE: $179 per hour Receiverships are a very powerful tool to abate dilapidated buildings and structures, to enforce judgments and preserve property interests. At Silver & Wright, we have experience in both Health & Safety Code based receiverships and Code of Civil Procedure based receiverships. Mr. Silver frequently teaches classes on receiverships for a local community college and throughout the State for code enforcement and building associations. We have also published articles on this unique and effective remedy. If handled correctly, two of the main benefits of Health & Safety Code based receiverships are guaranteed compliance and Hill recovery of attorneys' fees and staff costs. Cities can also avoid the costs and other difficulties involved in abating the nuisances itself by seeking a court appointed receiver to solve the problem — all at the expense of the nuisance property and its owner. With receiverships, the City never has to pay the actual costs of abating the nuisance conditions. We have handled several receiverships and successfully obtained complete nuisance abatement, judgments ensuring ongoing compliance and awards of full attorneys' fees and staff costs for our clients. Our unique expertise and strategies help ensure that cities are freed from the dangers and blight presented by substandard properties, and that they do not bear the costs of enforcement. For receivership services, Silver & Wright proposes a blended rate of $179 per hour for attorneys and $100 for paralegals and law clerks. C. PITCHESS MOTION DEFENSE FLAT RATE: $989 per motion; $179 per hour for wits and appeals. Pitcher motion defense is a very specialized area of the law based in statute, but heavily augmented by case law. Pitchess defense is vital for the City to show support for its police officers, to protect police officers' rights and privacy, and to maximize the effectiveness of law enforcement 5 251 -13