City wants overbilling attorneys
In Nevada, after a contentious meeting marked by ugly bickering, the Reno City Council voted 4-3 to give the City Attorney’s office the power to hire back an outside labor lawyer to continue labor negotiations with the city’s public employee unions, approving a new $300,000 contract. The move reversed a vote last month in which two council members blocked the contract extension with Fisher and Phillips, a Las Vegas law firm that represents the city on a number of labor arbitrations and against a lawsuit filed by the firefighter union.