City Hall is currently embroiled in a bitter legal battle with the attorneys who successfully represented Santa Monica in its litigation against 18 oil companies for allowing MTBE to leak into the city’s water supply. At issue is how much City Hall owes its lawyers for their services. And although city officials are looking to minimize the percentage of the more than $120 million settlement that is shared with those attorneys, they are racking up millions in legal fees in the process.
So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “Do you approve of the way in which City Hall is handling its legal dispute with its former attorneys? Why or why not?”
Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your responses in the weekend edition. Please try to limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 30, 2005. Read the original PDF.