Legal Service - 2019 - Parsons Behle & Latimer / Water Rights Attorney - 11/12/2019800 West Main Street, Suite 1300
Boise, Idaho 83702
Main 208.562.4900
Fax 208.562.4901
Mayor Stan Ridgeway
City of Eagle
P.O. Box 1520
660 E Civic Lane
Eagle, ID 83616
PARSONS
BEHLE &
LATIMER
A Profe-ssional
Law Corporation
October 31, 2019
Norman M. Semanko
Attorney at Law
Direct 208.562.4909
NSemanko@parsonsbehle.com
Re: Scope and Terms of Representation by Parsons Behle & Latimer
Dear Mayor:
Thank you for engaging Parsons Behle & Latimer (the "Firm") to provide legal services
for the City of Eagle ("you" or the "City"). It is the Firm's policy to confirm in writing the
engagement of the Firm by a client. This letter serves that purpose and identifies the current scope
of representation as I understand it.
We have been asked to advise and represent the City in connection with water rights. Any
further work will be agreed upon separately.
You will be billed for the time and expertise required to do the work and the charges for
support services and third -party expenses relating to such work. I will be primarily responsible
for this matter. The Firm currently bills my time at $180 per hour. I will endeavor to perform
services as economically as possible, but please note that 1 may delegate certain responsibilities to
other attorneys, paralegals or employees of the Firm with different billing rates, as needed to
provide services to you. Please also be advised that the Firm's practice is to increase the hourly
rates and charges in January of each year, including for services provided to you.
The Firm also bills its clients for support services and expenses such as electronic research,
facsimile charges, photocopying, internal document database management and electronic
discovery services, internal messenger services, and other items associated with our legal services.
The Firm also bills the client for any payments that may be required to third parties, such as long-
distance charges, conference calling services, postage expenses, transportation costs, travel -related
expenses, filing fees, service of process fees, expert witness or consultant fees, outside copy or
electronic discovery vendor charges, outside messenger fees, etc. Those charges will be identified
in the monthly bill and charged as they are incurred.
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Mayor Stan Ridgeway
October 31, 2019
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Statements for services rendered and charges will be mailed to you monthly. All bills are
due and payable upon receipt. Please carefully read all statements and promptly notify the Firm if
you discover any errors or discrepancies in the bill, no later than fifteen (15) days from receipt.
Otherwise, we will presume that you agree with the statement. Please be aware that the Firm
reserves the right to terminate providing service to any client who does not timely pay.
Your communications with the Firm are confidential and maybe protected by the attorney-
client privilege or work product doctrine, if reasonable steps are taken to maintain the
confidentiality of those communications. E-mail, text messaging and other electronic
communications may not be secure forms of communication unless they are encrypted or other
privacy safeguards are in place. The Firm's e-mail system is capable of receiving and transmitting
encrypted e-mail via the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to help safeguard the security of
those communications. If you wish to communicate with the Firm via this encryption protocol,
please advise us so that we may ensure that the protocol is in place and we can work out the
logistics with you to provide this additional protection, which may entail your obtaining
compatible software products. We also recommend that you use passwords and encryption
methods to secure your electronic and mobile devices, and take reasonable precautions in handling
hard copies of confidential documents and communications including providing those only to
persons on a 'need to know' basis.
Correspondence, records, agreements, and any other documents that we generate for
transmittal to you will be forwarded to you unless you instruct us otherwise. All files pertaining
to you in the progress of any given matter are open for your inspection at any reasonable time
during business hours. All documents, records or files, including any electronic documents,
records or files, created, stored, or that otherwise come into the Firm's possession during the course
of this matter are subject to the Firm's document retention and destruction policy. Accordingly,
such documents, records, or files are subject to destruction eight (8) years after the conclusion of
the matter, unless (i) you request possession of such documents, records, or files before the
documents are scheduled to be destroyed, or (ii) you request that such documents, records, or files
be destroyed earlier.
Our services are limited to providing legal advice and legal counseling services only. The
Firm does not render investment or financial advice. Business evaluations and investment
decisions will be made solely by you.
If this letter correctly sets forth your understanding of the terms of our relationship, please
return a signed copy of this letter via e-mail or fax.
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Mayor Stan Ridgeway
October 31, 2019
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Thank you again for retaining us in this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free
to call me at 208.562.4909. I look forward to working with you.
Sincerely,
PtRSONS BEHLE & LATIMER
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Norman M. Semanko
Attorney at Law
NMS:pw
The foregoing letter has been reviewed and the terms herein agreed to by me this )h-
day
of bc< 2019.
CITY OF EAGLE
By:
Mayor Stan Ridgeway
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Parsons Behle & Latimer Cost Schedule (2019)
General Administrative
Photocopies $0.15 per page
1 Oversized copies $1.00 per page
Color copies $0.80 per page
Blowback printing $0.10 page
Facsimiles $0.15 per page
Binding $1.00 per presentation/brief
Binders (varies by size) $4.00 - 30.00 each
Messenger service (varies by zone) $7.50 - 40.00 each
Return check fee $25.00 each
Wire Fee $30.00 per transaction
contract
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Practice Support
CD copying
DVD copying
USB Drive
External Hard Drive
Scanning paper documents for case management system
Color scanning for case management system
Optical character recognition of imaged documents for case management system
Electronic bates numbering of imaged documents for case management system
Electronic designation endorsements for each document
Native Processing for 'pro Eclipse
Production from Ipro Eclipse
Image Printing from database B/W
Image Printing form database Color
Creation of searchable PDF documents for production from case management
system
External user login for case management system (for use by experts, in-house
teams, or outside co -counsel)
Electronic Research (Westlaw)
$10.00 each
$25.00 each
$25.00 each
$125.00 each
$0.15 per page
$0.75 per page
$0.02 per page
$0.02 per page
$0.02 per page
$30.00 per GB
$350.00 per GB / $0.030 per page
$0.10 per page
$0.75 per page
$0.03
$125.00
Searches $200.00
Key Cite No charge
FIND transactions (cases, statutes, articles) No charge
All document displays No charge
Printing, emailing or downloading (including reporter images) No charge
Briefs or other pleadings or orders No charge
Secondary sources (treatises, ALR, Amiur2d, 05, Restatements, Law Reviews) within No charge
per page
per login
per search (all included
databases)
Excluded content {treatises, premium content}
Miscellaneous
Trademark Search
Exhibit Preparation
Downloaded documents from online court dockets
Technical setup up / courtroom technology setup
Standard Westlaw Retail Rates
$100.00 each
$40.00 each
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$2.50 document
$55.00 per hour