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firm, his knowledge is available to every attorney. In our institutional experience, our firm has analyzed and advised on almost everything a modern city might encounter. And through treating every legal question as important, we still have the files and memos from those experiences to give us a head start on answering the new questions. Municipal billing as a share of our business Kelly & Lemmons's billings to municipalities constituted 22% of its total billings in 2005, 20% of its total billings for 2006, and 12% of its billing in 2007. We did not perform any prosecution services in 2007. Other Municipal and Government Experience Kelly & Lemmons, P.A. also currently serves as legal counsel for the Minnesota State High School League, and primary litigation counsel for the Minnesota Teamsters Public & Law Enforcement Employees' Union, Local No. 320. Both of these clients enhance our municipal -law experience, and we believe neither representation will conflict with representing the City of Lino Lakes. In the past, our firm has served as Corporate Counsel and Prosecutor to the City of New Brighton, Prosecutor for the City of White Bear Lake, Special Counsel to the City of Osseo on eminent domain matters, and Special Counsel to the City of St. Croix Falls in connection with the Chisago Project and Northern States Power's (Xcel) power line matters. Our firm had a 30 -year relationship with the City of Maplewood, serving as their City Attorney and prosecutor, ending in July, 2006.