SIDA had used the law firm of Barclay Damon LLP as outside counsel, with partner Susan R. Katzoff attending meetings and advising the board and staff on legal matters. Katzoff has left Barclay Damon for another Syracuse law firm, Bousquet Holstein PLLC. She and fellow Barclay Damon alumna Jean S. Everett head the firm’s new […]
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SIDA had used the law firm of Barclay Damon LLP as outside counsel, with partner Susan R. Katzoff attending meetings and advising the board and staff on legal matters.
Katzoff has left Barclay Damon for another Syracuse law firm, Bousquet Holstein PLLC. She and fellow Barclay Damon alumna Jean S. Everett head the firm’s new public finance practice group.
SIDA issued a request for proposals in May, seeking “qualified law firms and/or attorneys to serve as general/transaction counsel and/or bond counsel to the Agency and the Syracuse Local Development Corporation, if required.”
Two firms responded with complete proposals and on June 19, the board voted to accept the proposal from Bousquet Holstein, Katzoff’s new firm.
Barclay Damon kept some business, however. The board voted to have the firm continue to represent SIDA in six eminent-domain cases that are ongoing.
Under the accepted proposal with Bousquet Holstein, SIDA will pay Katzoff $305 an hour, a discount of 20 percent from her standard rate of $380 per hour.
That rate is “virtually identical,” to the rate the agency paid before, says SIDA Executive Director Honora Spillane.