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2 <br /> <br />Hopkins, Maplewood, Oakdale, Richfield, Robbinsdale, Rosemount, Shakopee and <br />Tonka Bay. <br /> <br />Kennedy & Graven proposes Andrew Biggerstaff for the role of city attorney. <br />Biggerstaff is the city attorney for Tonka Bay and Robbinsdale. He has less than three <br />years of experience as an associate attorney with Kennedy & Graven. <br /> <br />Kennedy proposed the following fees through 2018: <br /> <br /> General Non-General Econ. Dev. & TIF <br />Attorneys: $160/hr. $180/hr. $215/hr. <br /> Paralegals: $ 95/hr. $ 95/hr. $115/hr. <br /> Law Clerks: $ 95/hr. $ 95/hr. $ 95/hr. <br /> <br />Municipal work was 95% of the firm’s billing in 2016. Minimum billing increment is six <br />minutes (.10 hours). <br /> <br />Ratwik, Roszak & Maloney <br /> <br />Ratwik currently has 10 attorneys and three support staff. All attorneys are experienced <br />in municipal law. 99 percent of its billings are to municipal clients. Joe Langel has been <br />Lino Lakes’ city attorney since 2010 and would continue to serve as the Lino Lakes City <br />Attorney. Joe has practiced municipal law for over 22 years. Joe also serves as city <br />attorney for the cities of Ramsey, Brainerd, Ironton, Crosby, Deerwood, Cass Lake, Clear <br />Lake, Breezy Point, and Federal Dam. 100 percent of Joe’s work is related to municipal <br />civil law. <br /> <br />City rates are as follows: <br /> <br /> Normal Litigation Developer Paid <br />Shareholders: $145/hr. $155/hr. $205/hr. <br />Associates: $145/hr. $145/hr. $145/hr. <br />Paralegal: $ 80/hr. $ 80/hr. $ 80/hr. <br />Legal Secretary: No charge No charge No charge <br /> <br />These are the same rates the firm proposed when first retained in 2009. Ratwik has not <br />increased its rates the past eight years. <br /> <br />The minimum increment of time billed is .10/hr. (six minutes). <br /> <br />Rupp, Anderson, Squires & Waldspurger <br /> <br />The firm has 15 attorneys, which includes six shareholders and nine associate attorneys, <br />and five support staff. Jay Squires would serve as city attorney. Squires has been <br />practicing in the area of municipal law since 1989. He is currently the city attorney for <br />the cities of Cambridge, Hanover, Dayton, Clearwater, and Norwood Young America. <br />Squires previously worked for Ratwik, Roszak & Maloney and served as Lino Lakes’ <br />contact person in Joe’s absence until moving to Rupp, Anderson, Squires & Waldsburger.