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Our firm has been retained by insurance companies providing general liability coverage to cities, <br />including the League of Minnesota Cities' Insurance Trust, to defend successfully the actions taken by <br />our municipal clients. <br />Our firm has extensive experience in construction law issues for our public sector clients. These public <br />projects include the resolution of all disputes and claims relating to the construction of a $15,000,000.00 <br />City Hall and Public Services Facility. Our public sector experience also includes litigation and <br />arbitration to resolve disputes relating to construction defects of a school facility owned by Independent <br />School District No. 139, located in Rush City, Minnesota. Because of our successful conclusion of this <br />case for the school district, the school district retained us again in March of 2005 for another <br />construction law matter. <br />2. Prosecuting Attorney — Criminal <br />Sweeney, Borer & Sweeney has provided prosecution services for municipalities since 1965. Over this <br />43 year period, Sweeney, Borer & Sweeney has prosecuted for the cities of Blaine, North Oaks, Little <br />Canada, White Bear Lake, and Shoreview. Such prosecution has included all petty misdemeanors, <br />misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors, and ordinance violations for our municipal clients. This extensive <br />criminal prosecution experience has included all phases of the prosecution process, including daily client <br />and law enforcement contact, review of incident reports, charging determinations, complaint <br />preparation, motions, settlement discussions, court trials, jury trials, probation hearings, and criminal <br />appeals. <br />Currently our firm provides criminal prosecution services for the cities of Blaine and North Oaks. Our <br />current attorneys have a combined 50 years experience prosecuting in Anoka County and over 43 years <br />experience prosecuting in Ramsey County. Our current prosecutors have tried over 30 criminal jury <br />trials. Our representation of municipal clients includes attendance at all necessary court appearances, <br />including arraignments, pretrial conferences, omnibus hearings, court and jury trials, and post conviction <br />hearings, including appeals. <br />Our firm's prosecutors have earned a reputation as the toughest prosecutors in the various counties in <br />which we prosecute. We have maintained this reputation over several years as our attorneys are known <br />to "actually try cases ". This reputation combined with our aggressive policies puts us in a unique <br />position with defense attorneys and the court system which allows us to obtain optimal prosecution <br />results for our municipal clients. <br />As a result of our prosecution experience and current municipal clients, Sweeney, Borer & Sweeney <br />boasts one of the only full time prosecution operations in the metropolitan area. Specifically, Sweeney, <br />Borer & Sweeney's office structure is set up to allow for access from clients and law enforcement <br />personnel, including municipal police departments, County Sheriff's Departments and the Minnesota <br />State Patrol, on a 24 -hour basis, seven days a week. This access allows clients and law enforcement <br />personnel to obtain legal opinions at any time on a daily basis. We believe this unique quality sets us <br />apart from other candidates for the Lino Lakes City Attorney position. <br />4 <br />