The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the people who brought Pacific Palisades an empty reservoir and dry fire hydrants, is intricately planning to defend itself far better than it ever defended that neighborhood against fires.
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The LADWP has lined up a top-flight L.A. law firm to defend the public agency against inevitable fire-related lawsuits at a cost as high as — wait or it — $1,975 an hour.
Estimates of the damage caused by the fires in LA are now at $125-150 billion.
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That is more than the entire GDP of over 100 countries.
Incompetence costs lives and money.pic.twitter.com/XjR5uttX4B
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) January 11, 2025
The city hired the Munger, Tolles & Olson (MTO) firm in a three-year, $20 million contract to defend it
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