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Moreover, our current prosecution operation allows us to provide our municipal clients with the advantage of a full time prosecution support staff. An example of this service is our ability to prepare charging documentation on a daily basis with minimal or no advance notice. Our support staff is available to and deals with law enforcement officials and court personnel on a full time basis throughout the week. Our support staff is aided by our state of the art technology and computer system, including the BCA Portal 100 service and MNCIS system, which is discussed in more detail later in this proposal. In addition, we regularly provide legal advice to the Blaine Police Department and the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, and establish charging and procedural guidelines for those departments. We have also acted as special prosecutor for several cities, when a conflict has arisen with a designated prosecutor. Our firm has worked closely with Tubman Family Alliance in Ramsey County and the Alexandra House victim advocacy program in Anoka County to ensure that the rights of victims in domestic abuse cases are aggressively protected. We also have assisted city staff in resolving nuisance complaints and violations of building codes, housing codes, and fire codes, without necessity of prosecution. Where prosecution has become necessary, we have aggressively pursued these prosecutions. Our office policy is to obtain pleas or convictions in these matters to ensure compliance with these codes. We have also worked with our cities to amend ordinances and draft new ordinances to address issues of code enforcement as they develop. Our firm has successfully handled and tried many DWI forfeiture cases for the Ramsey County Sheriffs Department, the Minnesota State Patrol, and the Blaine Police Department. B. FIRM BACKGROUND 1. Brief History of Firm Sweeney, Borer & Sweeney, as presently constituted, commenced in 1976, and has been extensively involved in representation of public sector clients since that time. The firm is AV rated in the Martindale- Hubbell Law Directory, which is the highest rating of law firms ranked by their peers in the United States. Our firm concentrates its practice in local governmental law, litigation, eminent domain, real estate, probate law, business law, criminal prosecution, and related matters. 2. Attorneys Sweeney, Borer & Sweeney currently has five attorneys. Patrick J. Sweeney, Thomas M. Sweeney, and George F. Borer are shareholders of the firm. Each attorney in our firm has specialized experience in municipal law as described later in this proposal. 3. Support Personnel Our full -time support staff currently consists of one paralegal who provides full -time legal services to the prosecution function and a second full time paralegal who provides legal services to the prosecution function and to secretarial and general office services. 5