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Capacity to Fife Petitions for ilfultiple Health and Safety Receiverships Jones & Mayer has unparalleled experience in managing high volume receivership litigation and workloads, including a systemized process and assignment of duties to streamline and manage various aspects of petition preparation, filing and compliance with all statutory and procedural requirements unique to receivership litigation. Currently, we manage more active receiverships and receivership litigation than any other firm in the State. Our systems ensure that each case is managed effectively to coordinate appearances, client updates, and tithing of filing of attorney fee motions and cost recovery, and receiver and contractor compliance. We require our appointed receivers to provide us with monthly updates to ensure each project is moving appropriately. Receivership Administrators are assigned to each project and are responsible for assisting the legal team on the day to day monitoring of each project. Experience Aloniforing Other Types of Receivership Services, Lien Acquisition Nranagernent, and Foreclosures Jones & Mayer has extensive experience monitoring and coordinating many types of receivership services both as counsel to public agencies as well as in the capacity of the court appointed receiver. Specific examples include: litigating/supervising and monitoring receiverships in various stages of bankruptcy (including extensive experience obtaining relief from automatic stays under federal law for local enforcement agency actions); supervising and coordinating complex lien clearing, stripping and negotiations/settlements with federal and state taxing authorities over lien and title issues during receiverships; supervising and coordinating receivership actions over properties in varying states of foreclosure actions. Experience 11anaging Data and Reporting Requirements far Public or Private Agencies Jones & Mayer routinely manages data and reporting requirements for our respective clients including, but not limited to, client conflict screenings, risk management reports and required litigation assessments, city counciYboard of supervisor reports, closed session reports and recommendations, annual audit disclosures and reports, required oaths as well as all required financial reporting requirements. Demonstrated Readiness to Proceed Jones & Mayer has all of the systems, personnel and experience to proceed immediately with any number of projects for the City of Santa Ana. In addition to the proposed team, we are committed to assigning any number of additional personnel deemed necessary to implement and effectively manage those projects for the City. We have substantial experience implementing large scale receivership programs for cities across the State. We are confident in our representation that our firm would provide the ultimate in demonstrated and continued readiness to proceed for the City of Santa Ana. 5: LAWSUITS AGAINST GOVERNMENT ENTITIES While we seldom litigate against public entities, there have been times when we are called upon to do so as part of our representation of another public entity. For example, we have been retained by public entitles or by individual elected offlcials on occasion to represent officials of those entities and then have become involved in litigation with a public entity who is in a dispute with the official, usually involving their respective rights, responsibilities or obligations. These cases include: Sparks v. Counry of Kern Board of Supervisors, Kern County Superior Court Case No. S -1500 -CV -259869 -NFT; rblargarel 11ims, Fresno County Sheri v. County of Fresno Board of Supervisors; Fresno County Superior Court Case No. 10CECO00528; CounryofSan ,loaquin v. Jones, et al., Sacramento Superior Court Case Number Case No. 06AS00744. 25H-20