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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Apr. 25, 2008

City Sticklers

Focus Column - By Michael M. Mullins - Anyone seeking to enter into a municipal contract must determine how an enforceable contract is created under applicable law.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Michael M. Mullins
This article appears on Page 7

      Your client, the consulting engineer, calls you in a panic about the long-term consulting contract he's had with a California city. Although the contract limited the scope of the work to be done and the compensation to be paid, a couple of months ago, the city's planning director begged him to do lots of additional emergency work and assured him he'd be paid....

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