Monday, March 19, 2012
Trustee Carol Quinlan says village board had no chance to discuss village manager's appointment of new village attorneys. Process should have been "more transparent."
Trustee Carol Quinlan (Dist. 5) criticized the way she and other Oak Lawn village board members were informed of the change in village attorneys last month, saying she had to ask the village manager what was happening after receiving his “convoluted email.” Village Manager Larry Deetjen informed the village board on Feb. 29 that he had appointed new legal counsel, saying he had the power to make such appointments under the managerial form of village government. Deetjen was out of the country and did not attend at last Tuesday's village board meeting. Do you think the village has too many attorneys? TELL US IN THE COMMENTS. The village switched attorneys last month, after Paul O’Grady and his government litigation group left Querrey and …
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Johnson Peterson Murray SP replaces Querrey and Harrow as village attorney effective immediately.
As of 5 p.m. Friday, the village switched its legal counsel from Querrey and Harrow to a new firm with Wisconsin ties, which assumed duties as the village attorney. Paul O’Grady, who has sat at the dais during Oak Lawn Village Board meetings for Querrey and Harrow for the past two years, will continue representing the village in his new role as managing partner for Milwaukee, WI-based Johnson Peterson Murray SP. The announcement comes after rumors that O'Grady had parted ways with Querrey and Harrow last week. Sign up for the O-L Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. “It was a personal decision for my family. It was a great opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” O’Grady said. “It was a great opportunity that we couldn’t pass up.” The …
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Politics or a legitimate investigation? Whatever it is, it's so far costing Oak Lawn taxpayers over $200,000.
The tab for the investigation into alleged malpractice and overbillings by the village’s former legal counsel is now over $200,000. Legal billings for Godfrey and Kahn – the Wisconsin-based firm hired to conduct a second audit of former village attorneys Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney and Preiss – is now $183,671. READ Village of Oak Lawn Legal Tab: Taxpayers’ Money at Work The latest bills to date were acquired from the village by a Freedom of Information Act request. Combined with other billings from Odelson and Sterk for $10,477, and a second bill from current village attorneys Querrey and Harrow for $6,392 – the total cost to Oak Lawn taxpayers now stands at $200,540. Tressler handled the village’s legal business beginning in October …
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The federal subpoena asks for all records related to hiring of current village legal counsel, Querrey and Harrow, from 2009.
Federal prosecutors are looking into the events surrounding Oak Lawn's use of village attorneys, Oak Lawn Patch has learned. An attorney representing the Village of Oak Lawn has confirmed that the U.S. Attorney’s office served the village with a federal grand jury subpoena. Eric Wilson, of Godfrey and Kahn in Madison, Wis., who is leading the investigation into possible overbillings and malpractice by the village’s former legal counsel, said the village was served with the federal subpoena on June 24. The federal grand jury subpoena requests meeting minutes and audio tapes from the Oak Lawn Village Board's executive sessions between May and August 2009, as well as information relating to the changing of village attorneys in 2009. “The …
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Joe Developmentalotis
2:56 pm on Sunday, April 1, 2012
You are wrong. First, Nobody wants a park like Playland at the site. Secondly, Nobody will develop any land without a TIF. Thirdly, 79th and Harlem was prime land 25 years ago more ›