25H - AGMT SPECIAL LEGAL COUNSEL

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1: PROPOSED TEAM (See Exhibit A — Complete resunnes for each proposed attorney and lead/supervising attorney Dean J. Pucci) 2: PROPOSED FEES The scope of legal services to be provided to the City of Santa Ana includes providing legal advice, guidance and representation of the City for the purpose of securing receiverships over identified properties. We will provide monthly reports to City contacts, and make appearances and/or provide updates to the City Attorney as directed by the City. Jones & Mayer will bill the City for these legal services at a rate of $125.00 per hour for services performed by a law cleric or paralegal and $225.00 per hour for services performed by an attorney. Once the City has successfully obtained the appointment of a Receiver it is entitled to reimbursement for any and all fees/costs it has paid its legal counsel (or to Jones & Mayer). We will immediately draft the appropriate pleadings and supervise the process of securing reimbursement for all fees and costs paid to our firm. That reimbursement comes directly from the appointed Receiver in the form of a check written to the City for the total of fees it has paid its legal counsel. Assuming there are no unanticipated complications, the estimated cost for this litigation per project may range from $12,000.00 - $17,000.00 per property, inclusive of all typical duties associated with receivership litigation and excludes unforeseen costs of litigation or appeals. The firm does not bill clients for routine clerical expenses. However, any extraordinary or large copying or reproduction expenses are billed to the client on a straight pass-through basis. Expenses not exceeding $1,000.00 are advanced by the firm and later billed to the client, while expenses exceeding $1,000.00 are forwarded directly to the client for payment. All billable work is recorded in increments of 0.10 of an hour (i.e., 6 minute increments). The firm avoids block billing and provides a description of the work that is sufficient to recall, to the mind of either the attorney or the client, the activity involved. 3/4: EXPERIENCE & GENERAL STRATEGIC Representing Municipalities in Receivership or Code Enforcement Actions Jones & Mayer is one of the leading law firms with extensive, unparalleled experience in Health & Safety Receiverships in California. Our Receivership Division routinely provides legal representation to public agencies in obtaining the appointment of receivers. Our firm has handled more health & Safety receivership litigation than any other law firm in California. We also provide full services as City Prosecutor to cities throughout California, We prosecute cases originating from all departments, including code enforcement, police, fire, zoning, finance, etc. When necessary, we prosecute to abate a variety of municipal code violations from complex nuisance abatement matters to unkempt property. We were recently selected over numerous competing firm candidates to represent the City of Los Angeles in their newly launched receivership program. Specific examples of receivership experience unique to the firm and proposed team identified herein are as follows: implementing and litigating receivership actions combining causes of action under the California Business & Professions Code for businesses, properties and/or operators engaged in unfair business practices; implementing and litigating receivership actions in numerous cities and counties with District Attorney authorizations to bring said actions in the name of the People of the State of California combined with the local agency authority; successfidly representing public agencies in complex receivership actions in various California Courts of Appeal; successfirlly litigating complex receivership actions involving commercial, industrial and large scale business operations; appointment as receiver over hundreds of properties ranging from residential, commercial, industrial, multi-family/unit, as 25H-18