Posted on 02/21/2023 12:37:20 PM PST by PK1991
DHS awarded a sole source contract to Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, 801 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004 for expert and consultant legal services. Debevoise & Plimpton (Debevoise) is the only law firm that has the necessary experience to provide the legal services to DHS for advice and representation relating to potential impeachment proceedings. The effort was awarded on a Time and Material (T&M) basis.The total value of the contract (including options) is as shown below: Period Total Base Year 12 mo. $1,500,000 Option Period 1 3 mo. $375,000 Option Period 2 3 mo. $375,000 Option Period 3 3 mo. $375,000 Option Period 4 3 mo. $375,000 Total $3,000,000 **** The Rules of Professional Conduct contemplate that a client has the right to select counsel of his/her choice. See e.g., ABA Formal Op. 99-414 (Sept. 8, 1999) (citing Rule 1.16). As part of this contractual requirement counsel may be required to represent the Secretary and other DHS officials in their personal capacity, the Secretary’s recommendation to award to the law firm that can best provide the legal services needed to represent him and other DHS officials during possible impeachment proceedings has been taken into consideration. Independent market research and assessment of Debevoise and other law firms were conducted to ensure that awarding a sole source contract to Debevoise under other than full and open competition represented the best decision for DHS, as a federal agency, and for the Secretary and other DHS officials that may be impeached
For that sleaze Mayorkis I presume.
They fight us with our money, we can’t win.
How is it that they can do this? Committing high crimes and misdemeanors is not part of Mayorkas’ job description. Therefore his job should not pay for his legal fees. F Him, and FJB.
Sole source, not willing to go with the lowest bidder I guess.
With a Repub majority in the House impeaching the miserable SOB should’t be hard. But convicting him in a rat controlled Senate is another matter.
The silly grin he has on his face after one of his word salad blessings during a House committee hearing is maddening.
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