Agenda - Council Work Session - 09/02/2025 - Special

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REQUIRED PROPOSAL ELEMENTS The proposal must provide specific and succinct answers to all questions and requests for information. Direct, precise and complete responses will serve as an advantage to the applicant. Proposals are requested for Civil Leaal Services. BACKGROUND Describe the nature of your practice or your law firm's practice and your qualifications for providing City Attorney services. Include a professional chronology for the individual who will be designated to serve as City Attorney, as well as for others whom you anticipate being involved with providing legal services to the City. Provide the overall capabilities, qualifications, training and areas of expertise for each of the principals, partners, and associates of the law firm, including the length of employment for each person and his/her area of specialization. Provide the following for each person whom you propose to designate as City Attorney and for each person you propose to designate as a deputy or back-up: • Legal training and number of years of practice, including date of admission to the Minnesota Bar Association, number of years of municipal or other local public section law practice as a full-time local government attorney and/or in a private law office specializing in local government. • Professional affiliations. • Knowledge of, and experience with, Minnesota Municipal Law or other public sector experience, and redevelopment law. • Litigation experience and demonstration of good court track record. Cite examples. • Knowledge and practice of law relating to land use and planning, environmental law, risk management, redevelopment, general plans, real estate and other related law. • Experience in the area of contracts and franchises. • Experience in the area of personnel, disability law rights and obligations, workers' compensation, employee relations and negotiations and employee discrimination claims. • Experience in the preparation and review of ordinances and resolutions. • Types of clienteles represented and years representing each. • Office location and accessibility to the City. If the firm/individual, or any of the attorneys employed by the firm, have ever been sued by cities or other clients for malpractice, been the subject of complaints filed with the State Bar, or had discipline imposed by the State Bar, please provide information about the nature of the incident, the dates of when the matter began and was concluded, and the results of the situation. Page 15