So far there is only an EEOC complaint. That Larkin-Hoffman firm was given a contract for services, not a license to steal. There has to be a lot of leaf raking going on at $330 per hour.
Whose crony is whose?
At any rate, Arne wants an independent investigation. This link.
An abrasive-aggressive individual got fired from an at will political job overpaying him and calling him a communications official when he's been a political hack his entire GOP life and was hired to be one. He poked his nose into policy matters, instead of communicating. He was fired for cause. Why the GOP took the path they did, they're idiots, clearly, or else there would be no case for Brodkorb to argue.
But eighty-one grand and counting, with no end in sight, for defending an at will firing -- a person with the Brodkorb personality being fired from a politicized job?
What's happening?
Again, whose crony is whose?
Who has the authority to assess the soundness and basis for such extreme billing?
Why is this not being done?
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It appears a strategy is in place to run the meter unconscionably so that fees mount so fast that it will be easy to soon pay Brodkorb a six-figure settlement to shut up and go away; and to justify it as "the only economically sound choice we faced with legal fees mounting precipitously." There must be a lot of diddling going on among legislators and staff, with that strong a will to keep it swept under the rug.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. I don't care about the carrying on, but I do care about the coverup costs. Arne is correct, and he gave his views among bankers at a bankers' meeting, so this question likely will bite and hold. This line of questioning. Who is in charge of cost control, and why is there no cost control being done? What is gained by turning a blind eye to extreme billings for services? Those questions should bite and hold.
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Make the billing balance owed, or at least at this point invoiced, eighty-five grand. See Brian Lambert's glean, this link for that detail, and much more worth reading. No excerpt, no description of other content. Go there. Read that. It is a paean to greed. And greed is not good.
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Invoicing for legal services, the bills should be public data; discoverable by the press as such. Does anyone know of the billings being put on the web for public review? If not, why not? Strib's latest report, among other things, says:
Brodkorb, a former communications director for the Senate's Republican caucus, was fired the day after former Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch resigned from leadership. The two had been having an affair. Senate officials have said Brodkorb's services were no longer needed after Koch resigned.
Brodkorb, a longtime Republican insider, says he was treated differently from female legislative employees who have had affairs with lawmakers. He has threatened to sue over his firing, claiming sexual discrimination, and has said he was defamed in the wake of his firing. He is seeking more than $500,000 in damages.
[...] The latest invoice includes time spent on numerous consultations between Senate staffers and two $330-an-hour attorneys, Dayle Nolan and Christopher Harristhal, at the Larkin Hoffman firm.
[emphasis added]. If others Brodkorb might name as examples of unequal treatment have been debriefed, and the lawyers' bill names names, isn't that news? So, which staffers were debriefed?
Both Dayle Nolan and Christopher Harristhal are Larkin-Hoffman shareholders, and Super Lawyers. Finally, how's this for a hoot, (the orange box), client needs - apart from client wishes for "privacy," driving Senate monkey "business decisions":
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Compare and contrast - photos from here and here:
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| We grossed out eighty-five grand in legal fees, from our handling of monkey business. |
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| We grossed out an entire movie-going nation, from our filming of Monkey Business. |