3/29/2013: OUS’s Oregon Administrative Rule 580 exempts a few things from the normal transparent competitive bidding process for state procurement:
(k) Goods or services related to intercollegiate athletic programs.
(L) Cadavers or cadaveric organs.
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(u) Contracts for professional or expert witnesses or consultants to provide services or testimony relating to existing or potential litigation or legal matters in which an Institution is or may become interested.
At its April 5 meeting the board is going to amend that a little, adding all legal services to the list, so that UO can hire firms like Rudnick and Frohnmayer’s HLGR in secret, and without competitive bids:
Meanwhile Randy Geller – in charge of hiring extra lawyers for UO – wrote a brief for HLGR, supporting their claim in a public records case, arguing the state should have to pay the firm twice the regular rate, or $866K total. Nigel Jaquiss has the story here, my take is here. What’s Frohnmayer’s cut? Not sure, but he bills at $550 an hour, so figure a couple hundred large:
Typical Bill Harbaugh distortions. You assert that this is a “special deal for Frohnmayer and Rudnick,” when in fact the rule change has nothing to do with Frohnmayer or Rudnick or HLGR. It may affect HLGR in the future–or it may not–but to characterize OUS’s rule as a “special” deal “for” them is plainly dishonest.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
I’ve added a few more documents and links to show a bit more about the extent of the special relationship between UO and its General Counsel Randy Geller, HLGR, and Frohnmayer and Rudnick.
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You are wrong about literally everything you wrote in this post. The problem is that you know nothing about the law, and you are a fool, so you don’t actually realize when you’ve said something stupid, and it is impossible to convince you of that fact.
The other problem, Bill, is that you are also a selfish and dishonest person, so you reflexively and unjustly attribute selfishness, dishonesty, and other bad motives to people. As a consequence, you slander and denigrate people who are better human beings than you.
Thanks “Roger”. Frohnmayer sure has some interesting friends.
I always doubt the one who claims that the other is wrong about “literally everything.”
Minus one point for “Roger.”
When a turd like “Roger” floats to the surface and tells you you’re a bad person, you know you got the gist of it right. “His” IP address would probably be comical.
My legal case (for ORICO-Racketeering, et. al.) against the UO is cited in one of Geller’s briefs. Apparently, UO had wanted to use HLGR, but instead was forced to use Hershner Hunter instead. My case against the UO was partially settled last year. But, there are still a few loose ends. I was informed about two weeks ago that HLGR was taking over from Hershner Hunter (despite Hershner Hunter representing UO for over a year and a half) on the case.
I’m intentionally not trying to “spin” anything here. Those are simply the facts.