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Here’s The Scoop …. Commissioner Mark Brown Seat 3 Lauderdale-By-The-Sea … Updated … Final Tally … Brown Wins Every Precinct! ..

Here’s The Scoop … Today’s The Day …Election Day 2012 For Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Seat 3 …

Here’s The Scoop … Scene & Heard Around Town One Day Before The 2012 Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Nonpartisan Municipal Election For Commission Seat 3 …. Final Preparations …

Here’s The Scoop ….The CIC-PAC Decides To Clarify Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Candidate Edmund Malkoon’s “Endorsement” In The 2012 Race…. It’s Called Circling The Wagons …Covering Your Bases … Saving Face? …

Here’s The Scoop …. 48 Hours Before The January 31 2012 Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Nonpartisan Municipal Election For Commission Seat 3 …

Here’s The Scoop … Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Candidate For Seat 3 Edmund Malkoon Turns Out To Be His Own “Troublemaker” In This Election …/ The Final Candidate Treasurerer Reports Due Before the January 31st Election ….

Here’s The Scoop ..Lauderdale-By-The-Sea & CIC Endorsed Candidate For Seat 3 Edmund Malkoon Is Taking “A Wait And See Approach” On Violating Fl. Election Rules While His Campaign Cohort Cindy Geesey Disses LBTS Democrats In Sentinel Interview !!!!…

Here’s The Scoop … Candidate Malkoon Starts Early Delivering For A Vote And A Strange Need Of Sympathetic Support 6 Days Out From Election Day …

Here’s The Scoop … Preparation And Presentation Vs. None Whatsoever When It Comes To Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Candidate For Seat 3 Mark Brown Vs. Edmund Malkoon …

Here’s The Scoop…Words From The Past….Familiar Lawyers…Familiar Politics…Familiar Practices?…

OH THOSE LAWYERS…AND THEIR BILLABLE HOURS…

http://www.afn.org/~afn54735/legalday1.html

  1. ‘THERE ARE CRITICS:
  2. Lawyers who work for local government grumble about petty politics and boring meetings. But the pay is decent and they never get stiffed.
  3. They’ve rarely had to vie for local government business the same way as other professionals. Some critics say it’s because many of the public officials who make the laws — and write government charters — are lawyers. Others say local politicians are too deferential to the legal establishment, evidenced by the careless way many cities and county agencies review and pay lawyers’ bills. The state’s top legal official warns that local governments are failing taxpayers if they are not poring over legal bills. Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth said it’s the only way governments can get a sense of the quality of the work and can catch costly billing errors.
  4. But even when agencies such as the North Broward Hospital District carefully check lawyers’ bills, mistakes slip through. The district paid the firm Conrad, Scherer & Jenne $2,500 when it was accidentally billed for 20 hours to review a letter in October 1996, records show.
  5. “We’re going to make mistakes,” said Ken Jenne, a partner in the firm. “It’s mortifying when you find it. It’s just the way it is.” This type of billing blunder, uncovered by Sun-Sentinel reporters, appears to be rare. It can occur in the private and public sectors, but when it happens in government, taxpayers — not shareholders — foot the bill.———-
  6. DETAILS MISSING
  1. ‘Sea Ranch Lakes and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, for example, use Josias, Goren, Cherof, Doody & Ezrol as their town attorneys. They paid the firm $80,264 last year. Neither town receives invoices with billable time or a breakout of which lawyers did what — just brief summaries of work performed. Bills are reviewed by the town attorneys, then by town officials. “I look at them pretty carefully,” said Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Town Manager Bob Baldwin. “It wouldn’t matter if they put their hours on the bill or not.” In Oakland Park, Donald J. Doody, a Josias, Goren partner who served as city attorney until April, billed the same way.’…..

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