Agenda - Council Work Session - 05/07/2013

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Corm & Ruppe Legal Services Proposal March 28, 2013 Page 11 of 13 Attorneys • $140.00 per hour for all non - development municipal legal services performed (including litigation). • $160.00 per hour for all development - related municipal legal services for which the City is reimbursed by a developer. • A flat rate of $200 for the first two hours of City Council meetings, and $140 per hour after the first two hours (no travel time is charged for City Council meetings), with attendance as requested by the City. • We recognize that being appointed as City attorney will require that our office become familiar with the current status of many legal and development issues in the City. We expect that we will initially spend a substantial amount of time familiarizing ourselves with your City Staff, procedures, existing development agreements and contracts, and pending legal matters. This "ramp -up" time will not be billed to the City but will be absorbed by Couri & Ruppe. Secretarial/Paralegal • Secretarial services are not billed to clients. • $60 for all Paralegal services (e.g. litigation preparation, recorded document searches at the County Recorder's Office, etc.) Couri & Ruppe does not charge for in -house copies (except for litigation - related copies, which are charged at ten cents per page), fax copies, long distance charges, mileage or word processing. Travel time is charged from port to port at the attorney's hourly rate, except as noted above. When necessary, we do utilize computerized legal research. Because we currently subscribe to Westlaw's Minnesota statute and caselaw databases, there are no separate Westlaw charges that are billed to our clients for research conducted in these databases. In the unlikely event research outside these databases would be necessary, any direct Westlaw service charges arising specifically from research conducted on behalf of the City would be passed through to the City at our cost. All billings to the City of Ramsey will be in 15- minute increments, and will be accompanied by a detailed description of the individual services performed.