Links to legal and consulting expenditures and the Hershner Hunter contract below – but not Amanda Walkup’s charge for investigating LibraryGate, which Doug Park apparently didn’t put in writing. Dave Hubin’s public records office is the black hole of transparency and trust. They sat on this 5 minute request for…
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9/8/2014 update: This SF firm does anti-union work for employers and billed UO quite a bit during Berdahl and Gottfredson’s attempts to fight the faculty union. Lately they’ve turned to the presumably lucrative business of running workshops about sexual harassment and Title IX training, taught by, of all people, former UO GC Emerita Melinda Grier. A few months ago they even added Grier to the firm, as “Of Counsel”:
But now she’s been dropped. No word yet if they are still billing UO $25K or so a month:
6/18/2014: Melinda Grier, HLGR, Rudnick, Matthews making bank off UO legal fees
It looks like many other firms are getting some action from Randy Geller too. Here’s April and May, full dump here:
10/20/2011: It really didn’t end well last time, but one of them could easily end up advising UO on legal matters again – a side effect of SB 242, which puts part of UO’s legal services up for bid. The RFP closed September 11. On 8/25 UO’s former General Counsel…
9/5/2011: Seems like a good idea. Maybe Melinda Grier and Dave Frohnmayer will team up to bid for the contract: RFP Amendment Bidding closes Friday. Currently the DOJ handles litigation, but SB 242 will devolve that to OUS and the universities.
2/19/2010: I got an extensive anonymous post in the comments section this morning from a Paula Rogers supporter. I don’t have any inside knowledge about this case, but the general pattern of retaliation – for which the jury awarded damages – and counterproductive behavior by the UO General Counsel’s office…