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<br /> <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />LEGAL SERVICES ANALYSIS AND REPORT <br />FEBRUARY 2013 <br /> <br />I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND <br />___________________________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Scope of the Legal Services Analysis and Report <br /> The City of San Leandro (“City”) contracts with Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson <br />(“Meyers Nave”) for City Attorney services. A Professional Services Agreement was first <br />entered into by the City and Steven R. Meyers in 1986, which has been amended as an <br />Agreement for City Attorney Legal Services with Meyers Nave (“Agreement”) to reflect <br />changing conditions and services. <br /> Municipal Resource Group LLC (“MRG”) was retained by the City Manager to <br />conduct an analysis and prepare an evaluation of legal service options for the City, including <br />the existing legal services arrangement with Meyers Nave, and to provide an analysis of <br />alternative budget and legal services arrangements. The MRG scope of work and this <br />Analysis and Report include: <br /> <br /> An analysis of the cost of in‐house City Attorney and contract legal services. <br />The analysis also includes an identification of the benefits of in‐house City <br />Attorney services and contract legal services. <br /> Review of the existing Agreement, City budget, accounting data, work load <br />data and other information related to the existing legal services arrangement. <br /> Review of existing City procedures and protocols for requesting legal services <br />from the City Attorney, the City Attorney’s role and other matters related to <br />the provision of legal services. <br /> Research and analysis of comparable jurisdictions’ data and appropriate <br />benchmarks. <br /> Research and proposed methods to manage and respond to legal services <br />requests from City staff.